A recipe for shepherd's pie uses 3 cups potatoes, 2 cups carrots, 1 cup onions, 1 ½ cups ground round to create enough for 6 people. If you need to feel 16 people, how many cups of carrots do you need? Use scale factors and ratios to solve this problem. Remember to show your work.

cups of carrot.

Step-by-step explanation:

Let's set up proportional equation.

6 people need 2 cups of carrots

Let 16 people need x cups of carrots.

We could form ratio for number of people to cups of carrot used as

6:2

16:x

So, proportional equation would be

Cross multiply

32=6 x

Divide both sides by 6.

x=

Divide to get mixed number

x=5

Simplify the fraction

x= cups of carrot.

7

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