Question

James is cooking enough lentils for lentil barley soup and lentil salad. The lentil barley soup recipe calls for ¾ cup of dried lentils. The lentil salad recipe calls for 1 1/4 cups of dried lentils. James had a ⅛ cup scoop. How many scoops of dried lentils will James need to have enough for the soup and the salad?

Answer 1

James will need to use his 1/8 cup scoop 16 times to measure out the 2 cups of dried lentils required for the soup and salad recipes.

Step-by-step explanation:

James needs to measure out 2 cups of dried lentils in total for both the lentil barley soup and the lentil salad, since the soup requires ¾ cup and the salad requires 1¼ cups. To figure out the number of 1/8 cup scoops he will need, we perform the following calculation:

1. First, convert the required lentils quantity into one unified measurement: ¾ cup + 1¼ cups = 2 cups of dried lentils.
2. Since James has a 1/8 cup scoop, we divide the total amount of lentils by the scoop size: 2 cups ÷ 1/8 cup per scoop = 16 scoops.

Therefore, James will need 16 scoops of dried lentils to have enough for both recipes.