Question

for every fruit 8 fruit cups that maria makes, she uses one and one fourth cups of blueberries. If she uses 5 cups of blueberries, how mant fruit cups can maria make

Answer 1

To find out how many fruit cups Maria can make with 5 cups of blueberries, we first determine how many cups of blueberries are used for one batch of 8 fruit cups.

Maria uses 1 and 1/4 cups (which is \(1.25\) cups) of blueberries for 8 fruit cups. Now, we want to find out how many batches of 8 fruit cups can she make using 5 cups of blueberries.

First, we find out how many batches of blueberries she can make using the given amount of blueberries:

\[
\text{Number of batches} = \frac{\text{Total cups of blueberries}}{\text{Cups of blueberries per batch}} = \frac{5}{1.25}
\]

Calculating that:

\[
\frac{5}{1.25} = 4
\]

This means that Maria can make 4 batches of 8 fruit cups. Now we can find out the total number of fruit cups she can make:

\[
\text{Total fruit cups} = \text{Number of batches} \times \text{Fruit cups per batch} = 4 \times 8 = 32
\]

Therefore, Maria can make **32 fruit cups** using 5 cups of blueberries.