Question

One restaurant uses 5 quarts of soup to make 20 equal servings. Another restaurant uses 7 quarts of soap to make 25 equal servings. Which restaurant has a larger servings of soup? write division expressions to represent the problem and then solve

Answer 1

You need a unit rate to solve this. A unit rate is "How much does it cost to make 1 or just a unit of the product?"

So, to do that, you jut divide the amount of servings by quarts of soup. Let's do it:

Restaurant A:

`(20)/(5) = 4`

Restaurant B:

`(25)/(7) = 3.57`

This clearly means that Restaurant B has a larger serving/quart because it uses less quarts per serving of soup. Hope this makes sense. If it doesn't, feel free to tell me!

Answer 2

20/5=4
25/7=3.57142857143 Rounded to the nearest tenth: 3.6
4>3.6
If you want the nearest whole, you would round down to 3 because you would be short of 4.
3<4