Hi! Does any one know how to do proportions? If so can you please help me out with these 2 problems? please show work on how you
got your answer. Ifs okay if you only know one problem. Thanks. To make lemonade, you need 6 lemons and 8 cups of water. How many lemons do you need if you have 24 cups of water?
If three bakers can prepare 15 cakes in 60 minutes, how long will it take six bakers working at the same rate to prep are 20 cakes.
Porportions are a lot like fractions. For the first question, you can make the fraction 6/8, or 3/4 simplified. This means that for every 8 cups of water, you need 6 lemons.
Then, to find the amount of lemons you need if you have 24 cups of water, you need to think about what×8= 24. If we divide 24 by 8, we get 3, so if we multiply our fraction by 3/3, we should get the answer.
If we do 6/8 × 3/3, we get 18/24. This means that we need 18 lemons if we were to use 24 cups of water.
For the next question, our fraction 15/60, for 15 cakes baked in 60 minutes. Now we need to divide 20 cakes by 15.
This question is a little different from the first one because there will be a decimal involved. If we do 20/15, we get 1⅓. This means that this time, we will multiply 15/60 by (1⅓)/(1⅓).
If we multiply 60 by 1⅓, we get 80, which is the number of minutes needed to bake 20 cakes.
