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For Emma's lemonade recipe, 9 lemons are required to make 18 cups of lemonade. At what rate are lemons being used in lemons per cup of lemonade?

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Answer:

1:2

A rate of 1 lemon per two cups of lemonade

Explanation:

9 lemons for 18 cups can be seen as:


(9)/(18)

Simplify by dividing both numbers by 9:


(9/9)/(18/9) =(1)/(2)

So, one lemon is used for two cups of lemonade. Half a lemon for 1 cup of lemonade...

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