Question

a recipe calls for 2 teaspoons of vanilla and 3/4 cup of sugar. cumpute the unit rate for vanilla to sugar

Answer 1

If you would like to find the unit rate for vanilla to sugar, you can do this using the following steps:

2 teaspoons of vanilla ... 3/4 cup of sugar
x teaspoons of vanilla = ? ... 1 cup of sugar

2 * 1 = 3/4 * x
2 = 3/4 * x
x = 2 * 4/3
x = 8/3
x = 2 2/3 teaspoons of vanilla

The correct result would be 2 2/3 teaspoons of vanilla per 1 cup of sugar.