Answer:
Mr. Conrad will need 14 cups of cherries to make 8 pies
Explanation:
Given;
A pie recipe = 1 3/4 cups of cherries = ⁷/₄ cups of cherries
8 pies will require how many cups of cherries ?
This is a proportion problem;
1 pie of recipe = ⁷/₄ cups of cherries
8 pies = x
x = 8 x ⁷/₄ cups of cherries
x = 2 x 7 cups of cherries
x = 14 cups of cherries
Therefore, Mr. Conrad will need 14 cups of cherries to make 8 pies
According to the French dictionary Petit Robert, it "perhaps" originally came from Italian, "Bombagia", meaning cotton.
Ref: 1220; o. i., p.-ê. de l'it. bombagia « coton
Note: Agreed, the word beige most recently came from French. I went too far back to 1220!
(edited 2018-03-08)
