Question

jenna used the recipe shown to make punch for a party orange juice: 4 cupspinapple juice: 4 cupsred tropical juice: 8 cupsginger ale: 10 cups if jenna made half a recipe of punch how many quarts would she need?

Answer 1

Given:

orange juice: 4 cups

pineapple juice: 4 cups

red tropical juice: 8 cups

ginger ale: 10 cups

The total number of cups that would give 1 recipe is:

$\begin{gathered} =\text{ 4 + 4 + 8 +}10 \\ =\text{ 26 cups} \end{gathered}$

Next, we convert the number of cups obtained above to quarts:

Recall that:

$1\text{ cup = 0.25 quarts}$

Hence, to make 1 recipe, Jenna would need:

$\begin{gathered} =\text{ 26 cups }\times\text{ }\frac{0.25\text{ quarts}}{1\text{ cup}} \\ =\text{ 6.5 quarts} \end{gathered}$

To make half a recipe, she would need: