Question

Anna is making fruit punch and iced tea to serve during the day. She starts brewing the tea for the iced tea. The recipe for iced tea requires 3 tea bags for every 5 cups of water.
Write an equation that can be used to determine the amount of water, c, in cups, needed for t tea bags.
While the tea is brewing Anna start to make the fruit punch,

Answer 1

3t = 5c

Answer 2

Water(cups) = 5c/3t = 1.7t.
Water(cups) = 1.7t. T is the # of tea bags required.