Question

Alison has 1/2 cups of yogurt for making fruit parfaits.each parfait requires 1/8 cup of yogurt.how many parfaits can she make?

Answer 1

Alison has 1/2 cups of yogurt and each parfait has 1/8 cups of yogurt. We want to know how many parfaits she can make.

If x is the amount of parfaits she can make,

1/2 = 1/8x

The 1/8 cups of yogurt in the x amount of parfaits has to add up to 1/2 cups because this is all the yogurt she has.

So divide both sides of the equation by 1/8 to isolate x, what we want to know

4 = x

Alison can make 4 parfaits with 1/8 cups of yogurts each using her 1/2 cup of yogurt.

Answer 2

She can make 4 parfaits.

To find the answer, you need to...
1. Find a common denominator for both fractions which is 8
2. converts 1/2 to x/8 by multiplying the top and bottom by 4 ( 2 × 4 = 8 and 1 × 4 = 4)
3. x = 4 so she can make 4 parfaits

Hope this helps!