Question

The table below shows the number of strawberries and cups of water

used to make fruit punch according to a certain recipe.
Strawberries Water (cups)
384
30
320
25
How many cups of water are needed for every 1 strawberry? Note:
Your answer may be exact or rounded to the nearest hundredth.

Answer 1

5/64 of a cup.

Explanation:

Is there two columns of data and two data points? Like this:

Strawberries Water

384 30

320 25

If so, then there are two ways to do it.

1) You can set up a ratio like this

384/30 = 1/x

Where x is the number of cups of water for 1 strawberry.

So,

x = 30/384 of a cup

x = 5/64 of a cup.

2) Look at the increase from one to the other.

64 strawberries requires 5 cups of water

Divide by 5 by 64 to get the water for one strawberry

5/64 of a cup.