Question

4. A punch recipe that serves 24 people calls for 4 liters of lemon-lime soda, 2 pints of sherbet, and 6 cups of ice.

Answer 1

For 12 people, the identical recipe that would serve this amount would be 2 liters of lemon-lime soda, 1 pints of sherbet, and 3 cups of ice.

To figure out the corresponding proportion from 24 servings to 12 servings, first we divide 24 by 12, which is 2. The number 2 represents how many times bigger