Question

Charles is making pumpkin lattes. His recipe calls for 2/3 cup of milk for every eighth cup of pumpkin purée. If Charles is making five pumpkin lattes, how much more milk will he use than purée?

Answer 1

Are we assuming that we are using an eight of a cup of pumpkin puree per latte?
If we are then the answer would be 1.042 cups of milk more than puree.

First we have to find out how much puree we are using.
That would be ( 1/8 ) × 5 = 0.125 × 5 = 0.625 cups of puree.
Then we would find how much milk we are using.
That would be ( 2/3 ) × 5 = 0.666666 ( a lot of sixes ) × 5 = 1.666666 ( a lot of sixes ).
To find the difference, you would then have to subtract the amount of puree from the amount of milk.
You would get 1.666666 − 0.625 = 1.0416666 ( also a lot of sixes ). If you are doing this with your own calculator you should get approximately the same number.
Since the number isn't exact you can round up all the sixes to the nearest thousandth. You should get approximately 1.042 cups.
I hope this helped.