A recipe calls for 2 1/3 cups oatmeal. You double the recipe and then divide it evenly into 14 servings. How much oatmeal is in each serving?
To double the recipe, you need to multiply 2 1/3 cups by 2.
2 1/3 cups * 2 = 4 2/3 cups
Now, you divide 4 2/3 cups of oatmeal into 14 servings to find out how much oatmeal is in each serving.
4 2/3 cups ÷ 14 servings = 4/3 cups per serving
Therefore, each serving has 4/3 cups of oatmeal.
Can you simplify that
Certainly! To simplify 4/3 cups, you can convert it to a mixed number or a decimal.
To convert it to a mixed number, divide 4 by 3:
4 ÷ 3 = 1 with a remainder of 1
So, the simplified form of 4/3 cups is 1 1/3 cups.
Therefore, each serving has 1 1/3 cups of oatmeal.
To find out how much oatmeal is in each serving, let's follow these steps:
Step 1: Calculate the new quantity of oatmeal after doubling the recipe.
Since the recipe initially calls for 2 1/3 cups of oatmeal, doubling the recipe will give us:
2 1/3 cups x 2 = 4 2/3 cups
So, after doubling the recipe, we have 4 2/3 cups of oatmeal.
Step 2: Divide the total quantity of oatmeal into the number of servings.
Since we want to divide the oatmeal into 14 servings, we'll divide the total quantity of 4 2/3 cups by 14:
4 2/3 cups ÷ 14 = 0.333 cups
Therefore, each serving will have approximately 0.333 cups or 1/3 cup of oatmeal.
To find out how much oatmeal is in each serving, we need to follow a series of steps:
Step 1: Double the original recipe.
The original recipe calls for 2 1/3 cups of oatmeal. To double this, we can calculate:
2 1/3 + 2 1/3
To add fractions, we need a common denominator. In this case, it's 3. Rewriting the mixed numbers as improper fractions, we have:
7/3 + 7/3
Now we can add them:
(7 + 7) / 3
14/3
So, after doubling the original recipe, we have 14/3 cups of oatmeal.
Step 2: Divide the doubled recipe evenly into 14 servings.
To find out how much oatmeal is in each serving, we need to divide the total amount of oatmeal (14/3 cups) by the number of servings (14).
Dividing fractions requires us to multiply by the reciprocal of the divisor. So the calculation becomes:
(14/3) ÷ 14
To divide fractions, multiply the first fraction by the reciprocal of the second:
(14/3) * (1/14)
Multiplying fractions is straightforward:
14 * 1 = 14
3 * 14 = 42
So the result is:
14/42
To simplify the fraction, we can divide both the numerator and denominator by their greatest common divisor (GCD), which is 14:
14 ÷ 14 = 1
42 ÷ 14 = 3
Therefore, each serving contains 1/3 cups of oatmeal.