Question

A recipe for tomato and pasta salad calls for 32 ounces of canned tomatoes and 4 cups of cooked macaroni. The recipe makes 8 servings. You only want to make enough for 2 servings. What amounts of canned tomatoes and macaroni should you use?

Answer 1

Hi! The answer is 8 ounces of canned tomatoes and 1 cup of cooking macaroni.

This is because you want a quarter (1/4) of the servings so you only need a quarter of the ingredients and to get a quarter of something you just need to divide it by 4 so

32 / 4 = 8

4 / 4 = 1

Hope this helps:)

Answer 2

8 ounces of canned tomatoes and 1 cup of cooked macaroni.

Explanation:

Since the recipe makes 8 servings and you only want to make 2 servings, all you have to do is divide the amount of ingredients by 4.

If 8 servings call for 32 ounces of canned tomatoes, we only need 8 ounces of canned tomatoes to make 2 servings.

If 8 servings call for 4 cups of cooked macaroni, we only need 1 cup of cooked macaroni to make 2 servings.