Question

A recipe calls for 2 tsp of butter. Melinda wants to make 40% more servings than the recipe makes.

Which expression represents how many teaspoons of butter Melinda should use?

A.
0.6*2

B.
1.6*2

C.
0.4*2

D.
1.4*2

Answer 1

to make 40% more servings
40% more recipe would be used
so we can say that 140% of 2 tsp of butter will be used

Answer 2

ok

Answer 3

So a recipe calls for 2 tsp of butter and well that would 100% of a recipe right?

Answer 4

yeah

Answer 5

Alrighty...and well we want we want to use 40% of those 2 tsp we use for a entire recipe...what is the decimal form of 40% ?

Answer 6

.40

Answer 7

Sorry wrong explanation.....since 1.0 is the decimal form of 100% and .4 is the decimal form of 40% we would simply add both decimal form and multiply that by 2 to get how many tsp would be used for the recipe...

\(\Huge{.4+1.0=1.4 \rightarrow 1.4 \times 2}\)

Do you understand my explanation?

Answer 8

We do this becuase 100% which is the entire recipe and 40% is how much more we want to add to the recipe....in which we would add these to get 140% which how much of the recipe we want to make...

Answer 9

ok i understand

Answer 10

and the answer is 2.8 right @563blackghost

Answer 11

Correct ^^

Answer 12

thanks so much for your help

Answer 13

np ^^