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Prahar wants to bake homemade apple pies for the school bake sale. The recipe for the filling of a homemade apple pie that serves 8 consists of the following:


three fourths cup sugar
three fifths teaspoon cinnamon
one eighth teaspoon ground nutmeg
one fourth teaspoon salt

Prahar would like to serve 22 people. Choose one of the ingredients from the recipe and determine the amount he would need for a serving of this size. Set up the proportion and show all necessary work using fractions or decimals.

Answer 1

To determine the amount of one of the ingredients Prahar would need for a serving size of 22, we can use proportions. Let's use sugar as an example.

If the recipe for the filling of a homemade apple pie that serves 8 calls for 3/4 cup of sugar, then we can set up a proportion to find out how much sugar Prahar would need for 22 servings:

3/4 cup sugar / 8 servings = x cups sugar / 22 servings

To solve for x, we can cross-multiply:

(3/4) * 22 = 8x

16.5 = 8x

x = 2.0625

Therefore, Prahar would need approximately 2.0625 cups of sugar for 22 servings.