Recipe uses ½ c butter, 4 tablespoons kernels, and 1 tsp salt. If you use 10 tbs kernels, how much butter will you need?
To find out how much butter you will need if you use 10 tablespoons of kernels, we can set up a proportion.
The original recipe uses 4 tablespoons of kernels and ½ cup of butter, so the ratio of kernels to butter is 4 tablespoons to ½ cup.
If we want to find out how much butter we need for 10 tablespoons of kernels, we can set up a proportion:
4 tablespoons / ½ cup = 10 tablespoons / x
To solve for x (the amount of butter), we can cross-multiply:
4x = 10 * ½
4x = 5
x = 5 / 4
Therefore, if you use 10 tablespoons of kernels, you would need 5/4 cups of butter.
In decimal form, 5/4 is equal to 1.25. Therefore, you would need 1.25 cups of butter if you use 10 tablespoons of kernels.