Question

You are measuring walnuts for banana-walnut oatmeal and a spinach and walnut salad. You need 3/8 cup of walnuts for the oatmeal and 3/4 for the salad. you have a 1/4-cup scoop. Describe two different ways to find how many scoops of walnuts you will need.

Answer 1

Use the 1/4 scoop three times for the salad. Use the 1/4 scoops three times, each time only fill half the scoop for the oatmeal.

Answer 2

Answer:

4.5

Step-by-step explanation:

We are given that you are measuring walnuts for banana walnut oatmeal and a spinach and walnut salad.

You need walnuts for the oatmeal =$\frac{3}{8}$ cup

You need salad=$\frac{3}{4}$

You have scoop=$\frac{1}{4}$ cup

We have to describe two different ways in which you find number of scoops of walnuts you will need.

1. Total walnut =$\frac{3}{8}+\frac{3}{4}=\frac{3+6}{8}=\frac{9}{8}$ cup

$\frac{1}{4}$ cup =1 scoop

1 cup = 4 scoop

$\frac{9}{8} cup =4\times \frac{9}{8}=$4.5 scoop

2.Number of scoop of oatmeal =$4\times \frac{3}{8}=1.5$

Number of scoop of salad =$\frac{3}{4}\times 4$=3

Total number of scoops =1.5+3=4.5