Question

A chicken soup recipe calls for 15 cups of chicken stock. How much is this in quarts?Write your answer as a whole number or a mixed number in simplest form. Include the correct unit in your answer

Answer 1

Recall the conversion

1 quarts = 4 cup

Given that there is 15 cups, multiply it by the ratior of quarts to cup, making sure that the cup is in the denominator

`\begin{gathered} 15\text{ cups}*\frac{1\text{ quarts}}{4\text{ cups}} \\ =15\cancel{\text{cups}}*\frac{1\text{ quarts}}{4\cancel{\text{cups}}} \\ =\frac{15*1\text{ quarts}}{4} \\ =\frac{15\text{ quarts}}{4} \\ =3\text{ }(3)/(4)\text{ quarts} \end{gathered}`

Therefore, 15 cups is equivalent to 3 and 3/4 quarts.