Question

A 3 L bottle of oil costs $36 and contains 12 cups. Dinesh puts 1 cup of oil, 10 garlic gloves and 1 cup of lemon juice in each batch of hummus recipe that he makes. Dinesh makes 5 batches of hummus. What is the total cost of oil that he uses in the 5 batches of his recipe?

Answer 1

Answer:

$15

Step-by-step explanation:

Let's start by figuring out how much 1 cup of oil costs.

12 cups of oil is 36$

Let's set up a proportion.

12/36=1/x

Cross Multiply

12x=36

Divide both sides by 12.

x=3

1 cup of oil is $3.

Dinesh makes 5 batches of hummus, and each batch requires 1 cup of oil.

5*1=5

This means he needs 5 cups of oil.

5*3=15

He used $15 worth of oil in the 5 batches of his recipe.

However, since it is impossible to buy 5/12 bottles of oil, he would have needed to spend $36.