Question

a restaurant uses 60 cups of mushrooms to make 12 gallons of mushroom soup. jesse wants to make 3 gallons of soup using this recipe. how many cups of mushrooms should he use?​

Answer 1

Jesse should use 15 cups of mushrooms to make 3 gallons of mushroom soup, based on the restaurant's recipe. Devon will be making 37.5 liters of soup for the party of 100 guests.

Step-by-step explanation:

To solve Jesse's question about how many cups of mushrooms he should use to make 3 gallons of mushroom soup, we need to find the proportion between the amount used in the restaurant's recipe and the desired amount for Jesse's smaller batch.

The restaurant uses 60 cups of mushrooms to make 12 gallons of soup. To find out how many cups are needed for 1 gallon, we divide the number of cups by the number of gallons:

60 cups / 12 gallons = 5 cups per gallon

Jesse wants to make 3 gallons of soup. Multiplying the amount needed for one gallon by 3 gives us the answer:

5 cups/gallon × 3 gallons = 15 cups of mushrooms.

Devon, on the other hand, is preparing soup for a party. Calculating the total amount for 100 guests using 375 milliliters per person, we get:

375 milliliters/guest × 100 guests = 37500 milliliters.

Since 1 liter is equivalent to 1000 milliliters, we can convert the milliliters to liters:

37500 milliliters / 1000 = 37.5 liters of soup for 100 guests.

Answer 2

15

Step-by-step explanation:

Write a proportion:

60 cups / 12 gallons = x cups / 3 gallons

Cross multiply:

12x = 180

Divide:

x = 15

He should use 15 cups.