Question

Explain how you would find how many 1.5 cup servings there are in a pot that contains 22.5 cups of soup

Answer 1

15 servings

Explanation:

We can construct a ratio to model how much volume of soup is contained in the corresponding number of serving sizes:

Volume (cups) : Servings

1.5 : 1

We need to find how many servings there are in 22.5 cups of soup. We can find this be multiplying both sides of this ratio by a number such that the left side (modeling soup volume) is 1.5. That number is:

`(22.5)/(1.5)`,

which we can simplify as:

`(22.5)/(1.5) * (2)/(2) = (45)/(3) = 15`

Now, we can multiply both sides of the ratio by this, and the right side should then yield the answer:

Volume (cups) : Servings

15 × 1.5 : 1 × 15

22.5 : 15

So, there are 15 servings in 22.5 cups of soup.