Question

You increase the amounts of ingredients in a recipe to make a proportional recipe. the original recipe uses two avocados and 0.25 cup of minced onions. the new recipe has 1.5 cups of minced onions. write a proportion that gives the number x of avocados in the new recipe. then determine how many avocados are in the new recipe.

Answer 1

0.25onions/1.5onions = 2avo./Xavo.
X = 12 avocados

Answer 2

12 avocados

Explanation:

To answer this problem we are going to use proportions.

The original recipe uses two avocados and 0.25 cup of minced onions, therefore the ratio is 2 : 0.25.

The new recipe has 1.5 cups of minced onions and we need to find the number of avocados x. x : 1.5.

We are going to solve for x
`(2)/(0.25) = (x)/(1.5)  \\x= 2(1.5)/0.25\\x=3/0.25\\x=12`

Therefore, there are 12 avocados in the new recipe.