Question

A meatball recipe has a ratio of 2 cups of breadcrumb mixture to 3 pounds of ground meat. How much breadcrumb mixture is there for 1 pound of ground meat?

Answer 1

Answer:

0.666 cups

Explanation:

2

:

3

x

:

1

You need to find the link between the two...

3

3

=

1

And because we know anything you do to one side you have to do to the other, you have to do

2

3

2

3

=

0.666

...

We can write this as

0.6

with a dot above it!