Terry uses 3 cups of pumpkin seeds to decorate the tops of 12 loaves of bread. She puts an equal amount of seeds on each loaf. How many cups of pumpkin seeds does she put on each loaf of bread?
1 Answer
Apr 18, 2016
3/12
Explanation:
You may also simplify that fraction to ¼, or one-quarter cup. ALL ratio problems can be set up for solution by writing them out in the way that they are stated.
In this case, we are putting 3 cups of seeds into (or on) 12 loaves. So we have: 3 cups/12 loaves. You should notice that the dimension of this ratio is cups/Loaves. Reducing it as far as possible will give us cup/loaf, which is what we want to know.
