Mary is making chocolate milkshakes for Holly's birthday party. There will be sixteen people at the party. It takes half of a cup of milk to make one chocolate milkshake. How many cups of milk will it take to make sixteen milkshakes?
It will take 8 cups of milk to make sixteen milkshakes.
To see why, you can think about it this way:
- One milkshake takes 1/2 cup of milk.
- To make 16 milkshakes, you need to multiply 1/2 cup by 16:
1/2 cup x 16 = 8 cups
To find out how many cups of milk it will take to make sixteen milkshakes, you need to calculate the total amount of milk needed.
Since it takes half of a cup of milk to make one chocolate milkshake, you multiply half a cup by the number of milkshakes you want to make:
0.5 cups/shake × 16 shakes = 8 cups
So, it will take 8 cups of milk to make sixteen chocolate milkshakes.