Question

Lisa's shop sells 5 quarts of ice cream each day. How much is this in pints?

Answer 1

10

Explanation:

We know there are 5 quarts.

There are 2 pints for each quart.

This can be though of as a ratio of:

2 : 1

There are 5 quarts, which is 5 times bigger than the ratio of 1.

So this means we need to mutliply both sides of the ratio by 5, to make the quarts equivelent to 5:

2*5 : 1*5

=

10 : 5

So for every 5 quarts there are 10 pints.

Hope this helps!