Question

Bob has a recipe for salad dressing. The recipe says to mix 14 c lemon juice, 18 c mustard, and 14 c vinegar. How much lemon juice does he need to make 4 c of salad dressing? Show your work.

1. First, think about how much salad dressing the recipe makes if you mix together 14 c lemon juice, 18 c mustard, and 14 c vinegar:




2. Next, think about how much lemon juice you will need for 1 cup of salad dressing:




3. Finally, use what you found in part 2 to find out how much lemon juice you will need for 4 cups of salad dressing:

Answer 1

He needs 56c of lemon juice to make 4 salad dressings.

Explanation:

Answer 2

He needs 56c of lemon juice to make 4 salad dressings.

Explanation:

We only need to look at how much lemon juice to make one salad dressing which would be 14c so we have to make 4 so we would do 14x4 to get how much lemon juice you need to make 4 dressings so you would need 56c of lemon juice to make 4 dressings