Question

A chef made 150 cups of chili and sold 60% of it. A serving size of the chili is 1

divide 2/3 cups. How many serving of the chili were sold?

Answer 1

150 servings [plus 2,212 antiacid pills]

Explanation:

Lets start by calculating how many cups of chili were sold:

60% of 150 cups would be: (0.60)*(150) = 90 cups

We can make the serving size a conversion factor, but it is difficult interpreting "1 divide 2/3 cups." I'll assume that this is meant to read that a serving size is 1 2/3 cups.

We can write (1 serving)/(1 2/3 cups)

Let's simplify:

(1 2/3 cups)

(3/3 + 2/3 cups)

(5/3 cups)

Now we can write (1 serving)/(5/3 cup)

From above, we know that 90 cups were sold. Convert the 90 cups into servings using the conversion factor just derived:

(90 cups)*((1 serving)/(5/3 cup))

(450/3) servings [cups cancel]

150 servings