A sauce recipe uses 4 cans of tomatoes in every 2 1/2 quarts. How many cans of tomatoes are used in each quart of the sauce? Enter your answer in the box as a mixed number in simplest form.

Respuesta :

1 3/5 cans of tomatoes are used in each quart of the sauce

Answer:

[tex]1\frac{3}{5}[/tex] cans of tomatoes.

Step-by-step explanation:

To solve this problem we need to apply the rule of thee, if 4 cans of tomatoes are used in 2 1/2 quarts, how many cans of tomatoes we need to 1 quart?

[tex]x=1quart\frac{4 cans}{2.5quarts }=1.6 cans[/tex]

Therefore, for each quart we have to use 1.6 cans of tomatoes, which is [tex]1\frac{3}{5}[/tex] cans of tomatoes.

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