Every smoothie sold contains 0.5 cups of strawberries. How many smoothies can be sold using 3.25 cups of strawberries?
2 answers:
You might be interested in
Answer:
She will use the ratio shortening to flour as 4 : 15
Step-by-step explanation:
When Mrs. Stewart makes pie dough, she uses cups of shortening for every
cups of flour.
So, for each cup of shortening she uses
cups of flour.
Then, the ratio of shortening to flour in the mixture of pie dough will be
i.e. 4 : 15.
Therefore, she will use the ratio shortening to flour as 4 : 15 to find the amount of flour she needs when she uses 5 cups of shortening. (Answer)
Looking at the problem, what we must do to complete this question is to completely factor the expression that was provided. The expression that was provided is .
The first step that we must do is to take a look at the expression and see what the two pieces of the expression have in common. We can see that both and
have the number 5 and the variable c associated with them so we can factor out those two.
<u>Factor out 5c</u>
Now we have completely factored out the expression that was provided in the problem statement and we came to final answer of .