Question

Hugo is serving fruit sorbet at his party. He has 1 gallon of fruit sorbet to serve to 32 friends. If each person receives the same amount, how many cups of fruit sorbet will each person get

Answer 1

16/32 = 0.5 cups of fruit sorbet

Explanation:

32×1/2=1/2=0.5

Answer 2

Answer:each person will get 0.5 cups of fruit sorbet.

Explanation:

1 US gallons contain 16 US cups.

Total amount of fruit sorbet that Hugo has is 1 gallon. He wants to serve 1 gallon of fruit sorbet to 32 friends. Converting from gallon to cups, 1 gallon of fruit sorbet equals 16 cups of fruit sorbet.

If each person receives the same amount, the number of cups of fruit sorbet that each person will get would be number of cups/ number of persons. It becomes

16/32 = 0.5 cups of fruit sorbet