Question

There is 1/4 gram of fat for every 1/3 tablespoon of powdered peanut butter. How many grams of fat are there for every tablespoon of the powder?

Answer 1

For this case what we must do is find the unit rate of grams of fat for every tablespoon of the powder.

We have then:

$R = \frac {grams\ of\ fat} {tablespoon\ of\ the\ powder}$

Substituting values we have:

$R = \frac {\frac {1} {4}} {\frac {1} {3}}$

Then, rewriting we have:

$R = \frac {3} {4}$

Answer:

There are $\frac {3} {4}$ grams of fat are there for every tablespoon of the powder