Question

A chef used a recipe to make soup. The recipe for the soup requires 2/3 cup of cream for every 1 2/3 of broth. the chef used five cups of broth. how many cups of cream did chef use?

Answer 1

To find out how many cups of cream the chef used, we need to calculate the proportion of cream to broth based on the recipe.

The recipe requires 2/3 cup of cream for every 1 2/3 cups of broth.

So, for every 1 cup of broth, there is 2/3 * (1 2/3) = 2/3 * 5/3 = 10/9 cups of cream.

Since the chef used 5 cups of broth, the chef would have used 5 * 10/9 = 50/9 = 5.56 cups of cream.

Therefore, the chef used 5.56 cups of cream to make the soup.