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Kelly is having a party. She wants to make punch and have everything set up before the guests arrive at 1:30 Ask Your Teacher The recipe for punch uses 3 pints of pineapple juice, 5 cups of ginger ale, Ask Your Teacher gallon of lemonade, and 1 quart of apricot nectar. Kelly says her recipe will make 20 cups of punch. Is Kelly correct?

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CORRECT QUESTION:

Kelly is having a party. She wants to make punch and have everything set up before the guests arrive at 1:30.

The recipe for punch uses 3 pints of pineapple juice, 5 cups of ginger ale, ¼ gallon of lemonade, and 1 quart of apricot nectar. Kelly says her recipe will make 20 cups of punch. Is Kelly correct?

Answer:

To find out, if Kelly is correct, we need to convert all the values to cups.

3 pints of pineapple = ( 1 pint = 2 cups) ∴ 3 pints = 3 × 2 = 6 cups

ginger ale is in cups already = 5 cups.

¼ gallon of lemonade, = ( 1 gallon = 16 cups) ∴ ¼ gallon = ¼ × 16 = 4 cups

1 quart of apricot nectar = (1 quart = 4 cups) ∴ 1 quart = 1 × 4 = 4 cups.

summation of all the converted values gives,

6 + 5 + 4 + 4 = 19 cups.

Kelly is wrong, Her recipe will make 19 cups.

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