Question

A salad recipe requires 3 cups of spinach and 1/2 cup of pecans. At this rate, what amount of pecans should be used with 2 cups of spinach?

Answer 1

We need 3 cups of spinach for each 1/2 cup of pecans.

Then we have:

`\begin{gathered} \frac{2\text{ cups of spinach}}{3\text{ cups of spinach}}=\frac{x\text{ cups of pecans}}{(1)/(2)\text{ cups of pecans}} \\ (x)/((1)/(2))=(2)/(3) \\ x=(1)/(2)\cdot(2)/(3) \\ x=(1)/(3) \end{gathered}`

Answer: It will be needed 1/3 cup of pecans