Lucia uses 3 ounces of pasta to make 3/4 serving of pasta, How many ounces of pasta are there per serving? How many ounces of pasta should Lucia use to make 5 servings?

1. 4 ounces of pasta per serving.

2. 20 ounces for 5 servings.

Step-by-step explanation:

3 ounces of pasta makes 3/4 servings of pasta.

We want to get find out how many ounces of pasta needed to make 1 serving of pasta, in other words 4/4 servings of pasta.

To get 3/4 to 4/4, we need to times it by 4/3, since 3/4 * 4/3 = 12/12 = 4/4 = 1.

So to get the ounces of pasta, we need to times 3 by 4/3.

3 * 4/3 = 3/1 * 4/3 = 12/3 = 4 ounces.

There we see that there are 4 ounces of pasta in a serving.

Now that we know that there are 4 ounces of pasta in a serving, we simply multiply to get the amount of ounces of pasta in 5 servings.

We can say that the amount of pasta is directly proportional to the amount of servings.

Direct proportion is the relationship between two variables when their ratio is equal to a constant value.

If there are 4 ounces of pasta in a serving, the amount of servings is multiplied by 5, and since the amount of pasta is directly proportional to the amount of servings, we multiply the ounces of pasta by 5.

4 * 5 = 20.

Here we see that there are 20 ounces of pasta in 5 servings.

Hope this helps.

its 4 because 2 times 2 is 4, if you double the number two you get four