Desiree is making guacamole for a party. The recipe she is using calls for 14 cup lime juice for every 4 avocados. If she plans to use 1 cup of lime juice, how many avocados does she need?(1 point)
Let's set up a proportion to solve the problem.
1 cup of lime juice is to 4 avocados as 14 cups of lime juice is to x avocados.
Using cross-multiplication, we have:
1 * x = 14 * 4
x = 56
Desiree needs 56 avocados.
To solve this problem, we can set up a proportion using the given information.
Let's represent the number of avocados Desiree needs as "x".
According to the recipe, for every 4 avocados, she needs 14 cups of lime juice. Therefore, the proportion is:
4 avocados / 14 cups = x avocados / 1 cup
To find the value of "x", we can cross-multiply:
4 avocados * 1 cup = 14 cups * x avocados
Simplifying further:
4 = 14x
To isolate "x" on one side of the equation, we divide both sides by 14:
x = 4 / 14
x = 2 / 7
Therefore, Desiree needs approximately 2/7 or about 0.29 avocados for 1 cup of lime juice. Since you can't have a fraction of an avocado, she would need to round up to 1 avocado.
To find out how many avocados Desiree needs, we can use a proportion:
Let's assume "x" represents the number of avocados Desiree needs.
According to the recipe, 14 cups of lime juice are used for every 4 avocados. Therefore, we have the proportion:
14 cups lime juice / 4 avocados = 1 cup lime juice / x avocados
To solve this proportion, we can cross-multiply:
14 cups lime juice * x avocados = 4 avocados * 1 cup lime juice
14x = 4
Now, we can solve for "x" by dividing both sides of the equation by 14:
x = 4 / 14
Simplifying the fraction gives us:
x = 2 / 7
Therefore, Desiree needs approximately 2/7 of an avocado to make 1 cup of lime juice. Since it's not practical to use fractional amounts of avocados, Desiree would need to use a whole avocado in this case.