Culinary Math

alltimelow_jagk

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PLEASe HELP ME!!!
you need to make spaghetti sauce for 380 people. Your current recipe calls for 20cups of tomatoes, 4tablespoons of chopped garlic, 1 cup of diced onions and 1.5pounds of ground beef. Your recipe makes enough sauce to serve 40 people. How much of EACH ingredient do you need to make for 380people????????
 
alltimelow_jagk said:
PLEASe HELP ME!!!
you need to make spaghetti sauce for 380 people. Your current recipe calls for 20cups of tomatoes, 4tablespoons of chopped garlic, 1 cup of diced onions and 1.5pounds of ground beef. Your recipe makes enough sauce to serve 40 people. How much of EACH ingredient do you need to make for 380people????????

how many groups of 40 people can you make out of 380 people (assuming 1 person can belong to one group only)?

Please show us your work, indicating exactly where you are stuck - so that we may know where to begin to help you.
 
alltimelow_jagk said:
i know that u have to put 380/40. I just don't get how to find the ingredients.

so what do you get for 380/40?
 
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