SOLUTION: i want to make a gallon of lemonade. I know that one lemon weighs 6 ounces and yields a quarter cup of juice, I need to use a ratio table to calculate how many lemons i will need
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Question 712560: i want to make a gallon of lemonade. I know that one lemon weighs 6 ounces and yields a quarter cup of juice, I need to use a ratio table to calculate how many lemons i will need to make a gallon of lemonade. Answer by stanbon(75887) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! i want to make a gallon of lemonade. I know that one lemon weighs 6 ounces and yields a quarter cup of juice, I need to use a ratio table to calculate how many lemons i will need to make a gallon of lemonade.
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There are 16 cups in a gallon.
There are 4*16 = 64 quarter cups in a gallon.
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Proportion:
x oz/64 q cup = 6 oz/1 q cup
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x = 64*6/1
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x = 384 ounces of lemon or 64 lemons
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Cheers,
Stan H.
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