Question

A medium-sized (4-pound) sugar pumpkin should yield around 1½ cups of mashed pumpkin. So, if a 4-pound pumpkin will yield about 1.5 cups of mashed pumpkin (pumpkin puree), how many cups of pumpkin puree will Steve Geddes' 2,528-pound pumpkin yield?

Answer 1

Answer: 948

Explanation:

From the question, we are informed that 4-pound pumpkin will yield about 1.5 cups of mashed pumpkin (pumpkin puree).

Therefore, the number of cups of pumpkin puree that Steve Geddes' 2,528-pound pumpkin will yield will be:

= (2528/4) × 1.5

= 632 × 1.5

= 948 cups of pumpkin puree