Question

Perform the following food service calculation. Guests = 320 Portions of beets served = 8 oz. Size of beet can = 40 oz. How many cans of beets required?

Answer 1

If each serving of beets = 8 oz, then 1 can of 40 oz beets can provide 5 servings (because 40 = 8 * 5)

If there are 320 servings, then 320/5 = 64 cans of beets are required to feed all of the guests

Answer 2

One way to answer this would to find out how many servings one can of beets has. One can has 40 ounces of beers, and 1 serving is 8 ounces, so 40/8= 5 servings per can.

You will then take the 320 total servings and break this into groups of 5 (which would be the servings per can).

320/5 = 64 cans would be needed to serve 320 guests.