Question

A recipe for lemonade calls for 1 cup of sugar and 5 cup of water .how musch sugar is used per cup of water.

Answer 1

Given,

1 cup of sugar is needed for 5 cups of water.

To find,

The amount of sugar needed for each cup water.

Solution,

We can simply solve this mathematical problem by using the following mathematical process.

Here, we have to apply normal arithmetic method.

For 5 cups of water = 1 cup sugar needed

For 1 cup of water = ⅕ cup of sugar is needed

(This fractional value will be our final answer, as per cu means 1 cup.)

Hend, ⅕ cup of sugar is needed for each cup of water.