sandy wrote:
The ratio of cheese to sauce for a single pizza is 1 cup to \(\frac{1}{2}\) cup. If Bob used 15 cups of sauce to make a number of pizzas, how many cups of cheese did he use on those pizzas?
Let's use
equivalent ratiosGiven:
cheese/
sauce =
1/
0.5If Bob used 15 cups of sauce to make a number of pizzas, how many cups of cheese did he use on those pizzas?Let
x = number of cups of cheese needed
We can write:
1/
0.5 =
x/
15Cross multiply to get: (0.5)(x) = (1)(15)
Simplify: 0.5x = 15
Solve: x = 30
Answer: 30
Cheers,
Brent