Question

Paula 64 grams of ground coffee beans to make 32 fluid ounces of coffee. Yesterday she made 480 fluid ounces of coffee. how many grams of ground coffee beans did paula use to make coffee

Answer 1

960 grams

Explanation:

We know from the problem that grams is proportional to fluid ounces. Therefore, if we allow g to represent the number of grams of ground coffee Paula used, we can find it using a proportion:

`(64)/(32)=(g)/(480)\\\\ 32g=30720\\\\ g=960`