Question

Josh's chicken soup recipe calls for 2 1 / 2 L of chicken stock. Josh makes 3 1 / 4 times the recipe for a family reunion. How much chicken stock does Josh use to make soup for the family reunion? Express your answer as a mixed number in the simplest form. Enter your answer in the box.

Answer 1

Required amount of chicken stock = $2\frac{1}{2}$ = $\frac{5}{2}$L

Total amount of extra recipe made = $3\frac{1}{4}=\frac{13}{4}$L

Total amount of chicken made is =  $\frac{13}{4} * \frac{5}{2}= \frac{65}{8}$L

Hence Josh made total $\frac{65}{8}$ L of chicken soup.

Converting it to mixed fraction we get,

$8\frac{1}{8}$ L