Question

To boil rice, start by combining water and rice in a pot at a ratio of 3:1. How many cups of water are need for a batch that uses eight cups of rice?​

Answer 1

ok the ratio of water to Rice is 3:1 meaning water is 3 rice is one and your child that we have 8 cups of rice so really quite the ratio of rice to the number of cups of rice so it will be if one is equals to 8 what about 3 that is the ratio that represents water so we'll cross multiply so that you have 3 * 8/1 and the answer is 24 so the number of cups of water needed is 24

Answer 2

Explanation:

To boil rice you use the following ratio

Water : Rice

3 : 1

? : 8

Basically what the ratio 3:1 means is that for every 3 cups of water, you need 1 cup if rice.

6 cups of water, you need 2 cups of rice (6:2)

9 cups of water, 3 cups of rice (9:3)

Etc.

All you would have to do is multiply 3 by 8 to find out how much water she needs for 3 cups of rice :)