Question

Corrine made smoothies for her family, but she changed the recipe from the previous time she used it. The first recipe required that she use one-half of a container of orange juice. This time, she used one-fourth of the orange juice required in the original recipe. If she used 2 cups of orange juice this time, how much orange juice was in the original container? Explain your answer.

Answer 1

She used half the quantity that it was in the original recipy, so the first time she made smoothies she used 2*2=4 cups of juice. That was half the container so the whole container has 8 cups of orange juice.