Desiree is making guacamole for a party. The recipe she is using calls for 1-4 cup lime juice for every 4 avocados. If she plans to use 1 cup of lime juice, how many avocados does she need?
According to the recipe, Desiree needs 1/4 cup of lime juice for every 4 avocados.
If she plans to use 1 cup of lime juice, she will need 1/4 cup of lime juice for every 4 avocados.
To find out how many avocados she will need, we can set up the following proportion:
1/4 cup lime juice = 4 avocados
1 cup lime juice = x avocados
Cross multiplying, we get:
(1/4) * x = 1 * 4
x = 4 * 4
x = 16
Therefore, Desiree will need 16 avocados.
If the recipe calls for 1/4 cup of lime juice for every 4 avocados, and Desiree plans to use 1 cup of lime juice, we need to find out how many sets of 1/4 cup lime juice are there in 1 cup.
1/4 cup lime juice is equivalent to 1 set, which means for every 1/4 cup of lime juice, 4 avocados are required.
To find out how many sets are there in 1 cup, we need to divide 1 by 1/4:
1 / (1/4) = 1 * (4/1) = 4
Therefore, Desiree would need 4 sets of 1/4 cup lime juice, which means she would need 4 * 4 = 16 avocados.
Hence, Desiree would need 16 avocados.
To find out how many avocados Desiree needs, we can use the given ratio between lime juice and avocados.
The ratio in the recipe is 1-4 cup of lime juice for every 4 avocados.
Since Desiree plans to use 1 cup of lime juice, we can set up a proportion to find the number of avocados needed:
(1 cup lime juice) / (4 avocados) = (1 cup lime juice used) / (x avocados needed)
Cross-multiplying gives us:
1 cup lime juice * x avocados needed = 4 avocados * 1 cup lime juice used
Simplifying:
x avocados needed = 4 avocados * 1 cup lime juice used / 1 cup lime juice
x avocados needed = 4 avocados
Therefore, Desiree needs 4 avocados for 1 cup of lime juice in her guacamole recipe.