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Description:
In celebration of Cinco de Mayo, Willy wants to make salsa. The recipe calls for
cup of onions for two servings of salsa.
If Willy only wants to make half a serving of salsa, how many cups of onions should he use?
Transcript
- 00:03
Okay Aspiring math drill people Here we go moving forward
- 00:08
in celebration of cinco de my oh willie wants to
- 00:12
make salsa The recipe calls for one fourth of a
- 00:15
cup of onions for two servings of salsa That's one
- 00:20
fourth cup onions for two servings If willy only wants
Full Transcript
- 00:23
to make half a serving of salsa how many cups
- 00:27
of onions should he used Well we're glad willi celebrating
- 00:34
cinco tamayo even though it's likely he has no idea
- 00:36
what exactly it is that he's celebrating Yeah it's that
- 00:40
well maybe he's planning this party for one reason because
- 00:43
of his confusion of the holiday and what it means
- 00:47
All right well you do You willy If willie needs
- 00:49
a fourth of a cup of onions for two servings
- 00:52
of salsa then he only needs half of that for
- 00:55
one serving right to be a fourth time's half So
- 00:58
it's an eighth right So that be for one serving
- 01:01
But in this problem willie wants even less than one
- 01:04
serving He only wants half of a serving so we
- 01:07
need teo do that home multiplying by a half thing
- 01:09
again So that's one eighth time's one half That gets
- 01:13
you one sixteenth Willie needs to use one sixteen The
- 01:16
answer's Aye right there Cup of onions and well for
- 01:19
our next trick we're going to calculate the perfect chip
- 01:21
the salsa ratio using the taste test method
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