Question

This recipe makes three portions of soup.

Navina follows this recipe but only wants to make enough for one portion of soup.
How much of each ingredient does she need?

Recipe: Serves 3
150 g onions
90 g carrots
3 tablespoons of oil
600 g tomatoes
900 ml vegetable stock

Answer 1

he given soup recipe serves for 4.

Navina follows this recipe but only wants to make enough for one portion of soup.

She need only of these ingredients. Therefore we will divide all the ingredients by 4 to get for one portion of soup.

Given ingredient ingredient needs

120 g onions 30 g. onions

64 g carrots 16 g. carrots

2 table spoon oil table spoon oil

500 g tomatoes 125 g tomatoes

840 ml vegetable stock 210 ml vegetable stock

Navina needs 30 g. onion, 16 g carrots, 1/2 table spoon oil, 125 g tomatoes and 210 ml vegetable stock for one portion of soup.

Explanation:

Answer 2

50 g onions

30 g carrots

1 tablespoon of oil

200 g tomatoes

300 ml vegetable stock

Explanation:

Divide all the quantities by 3

150/3 g onions

90/3 g carrots

3/3 tablespoons of oil

600/3 g tomatoes

900/3 ml vegetable stock

For one portion:

50 g onions

30 g carrots

1 tablespoon of oil

200 g tomatoes

300 ml vegetable stock