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jesus is making chicken and rice soup the recipe calls for 5 cups of chicken broth per cup of brown rice how many cups of brown rice is needed for 20 cups of chicken broth

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Answer:

  4 cups rice

Step-by-step explanation:

If a recipe uses 5 cups of broth for 1 cup of rice, you want to know the rice needed for 20 cups of broth.

Ratio

The given ratio is ...

  broth : rice = 5 : 1

Multiplying by 4, we have ...

  broth : rice = 20 : 4

This tells us 4 cups of rice are needed for 20 cups of broth.

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Additional comment

You can also use the proportion ...

  rice/broth = 1/5 = r/20

Multiplying this equation by 20 gives ...

  r = 20(1/5) = 4

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