Question

You increase the amounts of ingredients in a recipe to make a proportional recipe. The original recipe uses three avocados and 0.5 cup of minced onions. The new recipe has 1.5 cups of minced onions. Write a proportion that gives the number x of avocados in the new recipe. Then determine how many avocados are in the new recipe.

Answer 1

9 : 1.5

9 avocados

Explanation:

the original is 3:0.5, this means for every 3 avocados you need 0.5 cups of minced onions.

the new proportion would be ?:1.5

meaning it is not 9:1.5, since 1.5 is 3 times more than 0.5, therefore 3 avocados would also have to be multiplied by 3. giving you 9 avocados.