Q:

used 1/3 of bag of carrots to make 1/6 of gallon of stew. If Jamie's recipe is for 1 gallon of stew, how many carrots will need to make 1/2 the recipe?

Accepted Solution

A:
1 bagStep-by-step explanation:We use unitary method to address this problem.The number of bags of carrots required to make [tex]\frac{1}{6}[/tex]  gallons of stew is [tex]\frac{1}{3}[/tex]The number of bags of carrots required to make 1 gallon of stew is [tex]6\times[/tex][tex]\frac{1}{3}[/tex]=[tex]2[/tex]required number of carrot bags for the recipe of 1 gallon stew is 2required number of carrot bags for half the recipe is [tex]\frac{2}{2}=1[/tex]