Question

Zach uses 2/5 of a cup of vinegar in his salad dressing recipe. How much vinegar would Zach use to make 1/6 of a recipe?

Answer 1

Therefore, Zach would use 1/15 of a cup of vinegar to make 1/6 of the recipe.

Explanation:

To find out how much vinegar Zach would use to make 1/6 of a recipe, we can set up a proportion using the given information.

We know that Zach uses 2/5 of a cup of vinegar for the full recipe. Let's represent the amount of vinegar Zach would use for 1/6 of a recipe as "x."

The proportion can be set up as:

(2/5) / 1 = x / (1/6)

To solve for x, we can cross-multiply and then divide:

(2/5) * (1/6) = x * 1

2/30 = x

Simplifying the fraction, we have:

1/15 = x