Question

Mia used 1/7 of an ounce of nuts to make 1/5 of a cake. How many ounces of nuts are needed to make a whole cake?

Answer 1

Answer:

For this case we can apply the following proportional rule:

Explanation:

1/7 nuts. x

------------ = ----------

1/5 cake. cake

and solving for x we got:

x = 1/7

------- = 5/7 nuts

1/5

then the answer for this case would be 5/7 nuts

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