Question

Hemal wanted to make dessert for her family. The recipe made 8 servings, but she only wanted to make enough for 5 people. If the recipe for 8 servings called for 2 cups of flour, how much flour would she need for 5 servings?

Answer 1

i believe this is ratio and proportion problem

Answer 2

8 : 2 = 5 : x

solve for x

Answer 3

you are familiar with that notation right?

Answer 4

not really

Answer 5

what's your lesson?

Answer 6

its a mixture but its fractions

Answer 7

If you write what was written above as fractions:
8/2 = 5/x
You can solve for x. Do you know how to do that?

Answer 8

are you sure your lesson is not ratio and proportion?

Answer 9

not really im stuck on fractions

Answer 10

i have no idea how to solve this via fractions except for what i and @ten have said..

Answer 11

Multilpy both sides of the equation by 2.
That will remove it from the left side, and you have 5 * 2 on the right side for the numerator. Does that make sense?

Answer 12

@ten i dont think we should be solving this by ratio and proportion if that's not the lesson...

Answer 13

so is it 8*2 and 5*2 as the fraction

Answer 14

2 * (8/2) = 8
The reason you multiply by to is to remove it from the denominator.

Answer 15

oops by 2

Answer 16

Now you should have:
8 = 10/x

Answer 17

so i got 5/16

Answer 18

Did you get to:
8 = 10/x

the 16 is not correct. You shouldn't multiply 2 * 8, that 2 just cancelled out the 2 that was in the denominator.

Answer 19

what am i doing wrong

Answer 20

2 (8/2) = 2 * (5/x)
Equals
8 = 10/x

Answer 21

i got 4

Answer 22

The next step would be to multiply both sides by x
to get rid of it in the denominator on the right side:
8x = 10

Answer 23

Then divide both sides by 8, so that x is by itself:
x = 10/8
which can be reduced to
x = 5/4

Answer 24

now i got 1.25

Answer 25

That's the same as 5/4

Answer 26

right so i got 1 1/4

Answer 27

That's correct!