Question

Jim is making salsa. His recipe calls for 3 1/3 cups of tomato sauce or everyone 1/6 cups of cilantro. If Jim has 1 cup of cilantro, how much tomato sauce will he need to make the salsa?

Answer 1

To make the salsa, Jim will need 1/2 cup of tomato sauce.

Step-by-step explanation:

To find out how much tomato sauce Jim will need, we'll use the information given in the recipe. According to the recipe, for every 1/6 cup of cilantro, Jim needs 3 1/3 cups of tomato sauce.

• Jim has 1 cup of cilantro.
• We need to find how much tomato sauce he will need.

To find the answer, we can set up a proportion:

1/6 cup of cilantro / 3 1/3 cups of tomato sauce = 1 cup of cilantro / x cups of tomato sauce

Cross multiplying and solving for x, we get:

x = (1/6) * (3 1/3) = 1/2 cup of tomato sauce.