Question

A juice recipe calls for 5 cups of grape juice for every 2 cups of peach juice are needed for a batch that uses 8 cups of peach juice?

Answer 1

Since 5 cups of grape are needed for 2 cups of peach, the ration of grape to peach is 5/2

Let’s make a proportion
We know that we use 8 cups of peach, but we don’t know how many cups of grape, so let’s call that x.


5/2=x/8

Cross multiply

40=2x

Divide by 2 on both sides

X=20

20 cups of grape juice

Answer 2

Answer: 20 cups of grape juice are needed for 8 cups of peach juice.

Explanation:

5 times 4 is 20.

We must do this step because you need 2 cups for 1 batch, and times 4 that is 8. So then we multiplied 5 times 4.

So, 20 cups of grape juice are needed for 8 cups of peach juice.

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