Question

Tanisha's potato salad recipe calls for 3pounds of potatoes.She decides to make 3.5 times her regular recipe. How manpounds of potatoes should Tanisha buy? Show your work.

Answer 1

What i did was multiply 3.5 and 3 and got 10.5
so your answer will be 10.5

Answer 2

if tanisha decides to make 3.5 times her regular recipe, she would need 3.5 more for each ingredient. to find out how many pounds of potato she needs just multiply 3.5 and 3 to find out the amount of pounds. 3.5 times 3 equals 10.5 pounds. tanisha should buy 10.5 pounds of potatos