Question

Chuck is making a salad to go with his soup. The recipe calls for 2.1 cups of lettuce per person and 0.56 ounces of salad dressing per cup of lettuce. If 11 dinner guests want salad, how many ounces of dressing will be necessary? Round the answer to the nearest whole ounce. 1 ounce 2 ounces 6 ounces 13 ounces

Answer 1

the answer is D

Explanation:

Answer 2

Hello!

The answer is:

There will be necessary 13 ounces of salad dressing.

Why?

Since we already know that there will be needed 0.56 ounces of salad dressing per cup, and the recipe calls 2.1 cups of lettuce per person, we need to calculate the total ounces of salad dressing per each person, and then, calculate it for 11 persons.

So, calculating we have:

`SaladDressingPerPerson=Cups*SaladDressing=2.1*0.56oz\\\\SaladDressingPerPerson=1.176oz`

Therefore, we know that there will be needed 1.176 ounces of salad dressing per person.

Then, calculating the ounces of dressing for 11 dinner guests, we have:

`TotalOunces=SaladDressingPerPerson*NumberOfPersons\\\\TotalOunces=1.176ounces*11=12.94ounces=13ounces`

Hence, we have that there will be necessary 13 ounces of salad dressing.

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