Question

it takes someone 15 minutes to prepare 3 1/4 cups of juice how many hours would it take to prepare 32 1/2 cups of juice​

Answer 1

$\bf \begin{array}{ccll} minutes&\stackrel{juice}{cups}\\ \cline{1-2} 15&3\frac{1}{4}\\\\ x&32\frac{1}{2} \end{array}\implies \cfrac{15}{x}=\cfrac{3\frac{1}{4}}{32\frac{1}{2}}\implies \cfrac{15}{x}=\cfrac{\frac{3\cdot 4+1}{4}}{\frac{32\cdot 2+1}{2}}\implies \cfrac{15}{x}=\cfrac{\frac{13}{4}}{\frac{65}{2}}$

$\bf \cfrac{15}{x}=\cfrac{~~\begin{matrix} 13 \\[-0.7em]\cline{1-1}\\[-5pt]\end{matrix}~~}{\underset{2}{~~\begin{matrix} 4 \\[-0.7em]\cline{1-1}\\[-5pt]\end{matrix}~~}}\cdot \cfrac{~~\begin{matrix} 2 \\[-0.7em]\cline{1-1}\\[-5pt]\end{matrix}~~}{\underset{5}{~~\begin{matrix} 65 \\[-0.7em]\cline{1-1}\\[-5pt]\end{matrix}~~}}\implies \cfrac{15}{x}=\cfrac{1}{10}\implies 150=x\leftarrow \begin{array}{llll} \textit{150 minutes or}\\\\ \textit{2 hours and a half} \end{array}$