Question

Julie is using this recipe to make salad dressing. The recipe makes 1 batch of dressing. She plans to make 3 batches of the dressing. She has 4 cups of vegetable oil. Write a multiplication expression to show how much vegetable oil is needed for 5 batches.

Answer 1

Solution:

To make salad dressing with the help of recipe, Julie uses 1 batch of Dressing.

As, to make 1 batch of dressing Julie uses 4 cups of vegetable oil.

To make , 3 batches of dressing

Amount of vegetable oil required = 3 ×4= 12 cups of vegetable oil

General expression

→So, To make , m batches of dressing

Amount of vegetable oil required = m ×4= 4 m cups of vegetable oil

→To make , 5 batches of dressing

Amount of vegetable oil required = 5 ×4= 20 cups of vegetable oil