Question

two batches of soup will serve 8 people Lonnie needs to make enough soup 120 people if the recipe calls for two onions for one batch how many onions will lonnie need

Answer 1

If two batches of soup serve 8 people, then 1 batch will serve 8/2 = 4 people.

This means that:

1/4 = x/120

x = 30 batches

Each batch needs two onions, so we do 30 * 2 = 60 onions.

Answer 2

$\frac{8}{4} = \frac{120}{x}$ where x is the amount of onions needed

8x = 480

x = 60