Question

Stewart is making banana pudding for a family reunion. Her recipe uses 1.5 bananas per dish of pudding. If one dish of pudding can feed 25 people, about how many bananas will she need to feed 250 people that will be at the reunion.

Answer 1

Answer: She will need about 15 bananas to feed 250 people that will be at the reunion.

Step-by-step explanation:

Let be "x" the number of  bananas Stewart will need to feed 250 people that will be at the reunion.

According to the infomation provided in the exercise, we know that she needs 1.5 bananas per dish of pudding and one dish of pudding can feed 25 people.

Knowing this, we can set up the following proportion:

$\frac{1.5}{25}=\frac{x}{250}$

Finally, we must solve for "x":

$(250)(\frac{1.5}{25})=x\\\\x=15$

Therefore, she will need about 15 bananas to feed 250 people that will be at the reunion.