You're planning on making 7 meatloafs for a party. You go to the store to buy breadcrumbs, and see they are sold by the canister. How many canisters do you need to buy?

Question

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How much breadcrumbs does the recipe call for? It calls for 1 1/4 cups of breadcrumbs.
How many meatloafs does the recipe make? It makes 1 meatloaf.
How many servings does that recipe make? It says it serves 7.
How big is the canister? It is cylindrical, 3.5 inches across and 7 inches tall.
What is the net weight of the contents of 1 canister? 15 ounces.
How much does a canister cost? $2.49
How much does a cup of breadcrumbs weigh? I'm not sure, but maybe something from the nutritional label will help.

Answer 1

What kind of party serves meatloaf?

7 meatloafs requires one recipe seven times, or
1 1/4 C breadcrumbs*7=8 3/4 cups checktat

number cannisters= 8.75cups/(XXXX cups/cannister)
So you need to determine weight of a cannister, and weight of a cup of breadcrumbs.

cannisters=8.78cups*xxxxounces/cup/(15oz/cannister)

so you need xxxx ounces per cp

Answer 2

2.65

Answer 3

You’re planning on making 8 meatloafs for a party. You go to the store to buy breadcrumbs. How many canisters do you need?

Answer 4

This problem is actually fairly simple once you think about it a bit:

7 Meatloafs: 8.75 cups of BC
Each can is 15oz and has (14/3) cups of BC
Therefore: Each cup of BC is 15/(14/3)oz
You need 8.75 cups and therefore 28.125oz of breadcrumbs (8.75cups x 15/(14.3)oz)
With this we now know that for 7 loafs you need 28.125oz of breadcrumbs.
Each can has 15oz of breadcrumbs.
28.125/15 = 1.875 cups of meatloaf (Round to your desire)
You can plug in your own numbers and follow the steps, shouldn't be too hard.
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