Simon used mixed nuts and other ingredients to make 5 cups of trail mix. The chart below shows the nutritional facts for mixed nuts.

Question

Nutritional Facts
Mixed Nuts (without salt)
1 oz
Calories 124.5
Fat 10.5 g
Carbohydrates 5.25 g
Sodium 2.25 mg

Which is the best method to find the amount of carbohydrates in 3 ounces of mixed nuts?



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(1 point)
Responses

divide 5.25 by 3
divide 5.25 by 3

multiply 3 times 5.25
multiply 3 times 5.25

divide 5.25 by 5
divide 5.25 by 5

multiply 5 times 5.25

Answer 1

To find the amount of carbohydrates in 3 ounces of mixed nuts, you would want to use the information given for 1 ounce and scale it to 3 ounces.

Since 1 ounce has 5.25 grams of carbohydrates, you would multiply the carbohydrates in 1 ounce by 3:

Multiply 3 times 5.25.

So, the correct response is:

multiply 3 times 5.25.