A cook has a recipe for a pasta sauce that calls for 3/4 cup of chopped onions. One recipe makes enough for six servings. Compute the volume of chopped onions that would be required for fifteen servings. (Hint: That means the cook must prepare 15/6 = 2 1/2 recipes.)
Group of answer choices
3 1/4 cups
1 1/2 cups
1 7/8 cups
2 cups
To find the volume of chopped onions required for fifteen servings, we need to calculate 2 1/2 times the amount required for one recipe.
One recipe calls for 3/4 cup of chopped onions.
2 1/2 recipes = 2 * 3/4 + 1/2 * 3/4 = 6/4 + 3/4 = 9/4 cups.
Therefore, the volume of chopped onions required for fifteen servings is 9/4 cups, which can also be expressed as 2 1/4 cups.
None of the provided answer choices match this result, so the correct calculation is missing and none of the options listed are correct.