Question

Jerome is cooking dinner. He needs 8 ounces of broccoli for each person.

Part A: Jerome is not sure how many people will come to dinner. Write an expression with a variable that represents the amount of broccoli Jerome needs for dinner. Identify what the variable represents.

Part B: If Jerome has 32 ounces of broccoli, how many people can he feed? Create an equation and show all work to solve it.

Answer 1

Part A: 8Bp (8 b(broccoli) times p(people)

If Jerome has 32 ounces of broccoli then he can feed 4 people

32 pieces of broccoli divided by the 8 piece of brocoli per person will tell you that he will have 4 pieces of broccoli

Answer 2

Part A

lets just say 5 people come for dinner so 5x8 = 40 so he will need 40 ounces of broccoli

Part B so 8 ounces per person and he has 32 ounces so he will have feed 4 people