A recipe for sweet potato pie calls for 3/4 cup of milk. Martina has 6 cups of milk. How many sweet potato pies can she make with that amount of milk?
6 / (3/4) = ?
What is 6 ÷ (3/4) ?
= 6 * 4/3
= 8
To determine how many sweet potato pies Martina can make with 6 cups of milk, we need to find the ratio of milk to pies in the recipe.
The recipe calls for 3/4 cup of milk per pie. This means that for each sweet potato pie, Martina needs 3/4 cup of milk.
To find the number of pies she can make, we divide the total amount of milk (6 cups) by the amount of milk needed for one pie (3/4 cup):
6 cups ÷ (3/4 cup/pie)
First, let's convert the fraction 3/4 to a decimal. We divide the numerator (3) by the denominator (4):
3 ÷ 4 = 0.75
Now, we divide the total amount of milk (6 cups) by the amount of milk needed for one pie (0.75 cups):
6 cups ÷ 0.75 cups/pie
Dividing 6 cups by 0.75 cups/pie gives us:
6 ÷ 0.75 = 8
Therefore, Martina can make 8 sweet potato pies with 6 cups of milk.