pasty's pasta houses 3 cups of pasta sauce for every 6 ounces of pasta.

Question

What is the unit rate of pasta per sauce? include 2 units in your answer

Answer 1

To find the unit rate of pasta per sauce, we start with the given ratio of pasta sauce to pasta.

The recipe states that there are 3 cups of pasta sauce for every 6 ounces of pasta. We can express this as a ratio:

\[ \frac{3 \text{ cups of sauce}}{6 \text{ ounces of pasta}} \]

To find the unit rate of pasta per sauce, we want to see how much pasta corresponds to 1 cup of sauce. We can simplify the ratio first:

1. Divide both the numerator and the denominator by 3:

\[ \frac{3 \div 3 \text{ cups of sauce}}{6 \div 3 \text{ ounces of pasta}} = \frac{1 \text{ cup of sauce}}{2 \text{ ounces of pasta}} \]

Now, the unit rate of pasta per sauce is:

\[ 2 \text{ ounces of pasta per 1 cup of sauce} \]

So the answer is:

2 ounces of pasta per 1 cup of sauce.