Question

A pizzeria uses a 3-pound bag of cheese to make 8 pizzas. Use the given ratio to compute the number of pizzas the pizzeria can make with each number of pounds of cheese.

Complete the table.

Cheese Number of Pizzas
3 pounds 8
18 pounds
22.5 pounds
27 pounds

Answer 1

Cheese — Number of Pizzas
3 pounds — 8
18 pounds — 48 (18 × 8/3 = 6 × 8 = 48)
22.5 pounds — 60 (22.5 × 8/3 = 7.5 × 8 = 60)
27 pounds — 72 (27 × 8/3 = 9 × 8 = 72)