Lenora is following a recipe. She needs 1/3 cup of vegetable oil, 1/4 cup of vinegar, salt and pepper to taste. How many batches of the recipe can she make if she has 5 cups of vegetable oil?
Lenora is following a recipe. She needs 1/3 cup of vegetable oil, 1/4 cup of vinegar, salt and pepper to taste,just for one batch. How many batches of the recipe can she make if she has 5 cups of vegetable oil?
since each batch uses 1/3 cup of oil, a whole cup of oil makes 3 batches.
so, what do you think for 5 cups?
or, if you want to use a proportion,
x/5 = 1/(1/3)
5/(1/3) = 5 * 3/1 = 15 batches.
To figure out how many batches of the recipe Lenora can make with 5 cups of vegetable oil, we need to determine how many cups of oil are needed per batch.
According to the recipe, Lenora needs 1/3 cup of vegetable oil for each batch.
To find out how many batches she can make, we divide the total amount of vegetable oil she has by the amount needed per batch.
So, the calculation would be:
5 cups of vegetable oil ÷ (1/3 cup of oil per batch)
To divide by a fraction, we can invert the fraction and multiply.
Therefore:
5 cups ÷ (1/3 cup) = 5 cups * (3/1 cup)
Multiplying across:
5 * 3 = 15
Therefore, Lenora can make 15 batches of the recipe if she has 5 cups of vegetable oil.