A cook has a recipe for a pasta sauce that calls for 3/4 cup of chopped onions. One recipe makes enough for six servings. Compute the volume of chopped onions that would be required for fifteen servings. (Hint: That means the cook must prepare 15/6 = 2 1/2 recipes.)

Question

Group of answer choices

3 1/4 cups

1 1/2 cups

1 7/8 cups

2 cups

Answer 1

To find the volume of chopped onions required for fifteen servings, we need to calculate 2 1/2 times the amount required for one recipe.

One recipe calls for 3/4 cup of chopped onions.
2 1/2 recipes = 2 * 3/4 + 1/2 * 3/4 = 6/4 + 3/4 = 9/4 cups.

Therefore, the volume of chopped onions required for fifteen servings is 9/4 cups, which can also be expressed as 2 1/4 cups.

None of the provided answer choices match this result, so the correct calculation is missing and none of the options listed are correct.