Question

A recipe for lemonade calls for 1 cup of sugat and 5 fups of water.how much sugat is used per cup of water. Show your work in you notebook

Answer 1

To find out how much sugar is used per cup of water in the lemonade recipe, we need to find the ratio of sugar to water.

The recipe calls for 1 cup of sugar and 5 cups of water, so the ratio of sugar to water is:

1 : 5

To find out how much sugar is used per cup of water, we need to divide the amount of sugar by the amount of water.

1 cup of sugar ÷ 5 cups of water = 0.2 cups of sugar per cup of water

Therefore, the recipe uses 0.2 cups of sugar per cup of water.

Answer 2

We can first start off by getting from 5 cups of water to 1 cup of water. We can do this by dividing 5 by 5 to get 1. Since we did this to the water, we need to do the same thing with the sugar. 1 cup of sugar divided by 5 is equivalent to 0.2 cups of sugar.

The answer is 0.2 cups of sugar.