Question

Grandma Meyer uses the recipe to make a soup.A.Draw a bar diagram to find how much vegetable stock and cream are needed.B. Find how many cups of soup will be made with all the ingredients. Explain your work.

Answer 1

Prior to plotting our chart, we need to convert these mixed fractions to decimals. Since denominators are 4, we can easily multiply both sides of the fraction by 25 to give the fraction in terms of 100 and thus, easily convert to decimal.

`ChickenBroth\colon2(3)/(4)=\text{ 2 + (}(3*25)/(4*25)\text{)= 2 + }(75)/(100)=\text{ 2 + 0.75 = 2.75}`
`Water\colon1(1)/(4)=\text{ 1 + (}(2*25)/(4*25)\text{)= 2 + }(50)/(100)=\text{ 2 + 0.5 = 1.5}`
`Cream\colon1(1)/(4)=\text{ 1 + (}(1*25)/(4*25)\text{)= 1 + }(25)/(100)=\text{ 1 + 0.25 = 1.25}`
`Vegetablestock\colon2(3)/(4)=\text{ 2 + (}(3*25)/(4*25)\text{)= 2 + }(75)/(100)=\text{ 2 + 0.75 = 2.75}`

B.

The number of cups of soup will be a total of the ingredient,

`\begin{gathered} \text{Total = 2.75 + 1.5 + 1.25 + 2.75 = 8.25} \\ To\text{ get back as mixed fractions,} \\ (8\text{ + }(25)/(100))\text{ + (8 +}(1)/(4)\text{) = 8}(1)/(4) \end{gathered}`