Answer: 12 Cloves of Garlic
Explanation:
You can set this up as a fraction, we can use
to show what she normally uses, and we can use
for the amount of garlic cloves she needs over the amount of chick peas she is using.Then you can cross multiply. Your equation would then be
. Lastly we need to get x by itself.
This equation would simplify to
, which is the amount of garlic cloves she needs.
You could also set this up as a ratio, so for every 3 cloves she needs 17 ounces of chick peas. You would just divide 68 by 17 then multiply the quotient by 3.