Question

A recipe Uses 1 1/4 cups of milk to make 10 servings if the same amount of milk is used for each serving how many servings can be made using one gallon of milk

Answer 1

128

Explanation:

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Answer 2

128

Explanation:

There are a couple of ways to go at this. One is to use a proportion:

(10 servings)/(1.25 cups) = (x servings)/(16 cups)

160/1.25 = x = 128 . . . . . . . multiply by 16 and simplify

1 gallon of milk will make 128 servings.

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Another way to go at this is to figure out how much milk is used in one serving. It is ...

1.25 cups/(10 servings) = 0.125 cups/serving = 1/8 cup/serving

Now, you can work with several different conversion factors:

1 cup = 8 oz

1 gal = 128 oz

1 gal = 16 cups

Obviously 1/8 cup is 1 oz. Since there are 128 oz in a gallon, the gallon will make 128 servings.

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Or, you can divide 16 cups by (1/8 cup/serving) to find the number of servings:

(16 cups/gal)/(1/8 cup/serving) = 16·8 servings/gal = 128 servings/gal