Question

To make five cups of lemonade you mix three cups of water with two cups of lemon juice. If there are sixteen cups in a gallon, how many cups of lemon juice are needed to make ten gallons of lemonade

Answer 1

64 cups of lemon juice

Step-by-step explanation:

First, you can determine with the information provided the amount of cups of lemon needed to prepare sixteen cups of lemonade:

5 cups of lemonade→2 cups of lemon juice

16 cups of lemonade→x

x=(16*2)/5=6.4 cups of lemon juice

Now, you now that for sixteen cups that is the amount in a gallon you need 6.4 cups of lemon juice and you can use a rule of three to determine the amount needed for ten gallons of lemonade:

1 gallon of lemonade→6.4 cups of lemon juice

10 galons of lemonade→x

x=(10*6.4)/1=64 cups of lemon juice

According to this, the answer is that 64 cups of lemon juice are needed to make ten gallons of lemonade.