A recipe for strawberry smoothies requires a fourth of a cup of sugar and 1 cup of strawberries per smoothie. You are making your family smoothies and need to figure out how much sugar to buy for 4 smoothies. How much sugar to do you need?
Answer

1 cup

8 cups

0.5 cups

2 cups

Question

A recipe for strawberry smoothies requires a fourth of a cup of sugar and 1 cup of strawberries per smoothie. You are making your family smoothies and need to figure out how much sugar to buy for 4 smoothies. How much sugar to do you need?
Answer
		
1 cup
		
8 cups
		
0.5 cups
		
2 cups

mathmale · Answer

Your focus is on the amount of sugar needed.  Ignore the info about how many strawberries are needed.

How much sugar goes into one smoothie?

wyattp17 · Answer

umm 1/4

mathmale · Answer

1 smoothie : 1/4 cup sugar.
Multiply both sides of this ratio by 4. 
What do you get?

wyattp17 · Answer

these are the answer options

		
1 cup
		
8 cups
		
0.5 cups
		
2 cups

mathmale · Answer

You have this ratio:

  1 smoothie
------------
 (1/4) cup sugar

Again I ask you to multiply both numerator and denominator by 4.

wyattp17 · Answer

that would be 4/4/16