Question

A restaurant uses 3 pounds of pasta for a party of 14 people. If they are cooking pasta for a party of 56 people, what should they do?

Answer 1

If you would like to know how many pounds of pasta the restaurant will need, you can calculate this using the following steps:

3 pounds of pasta ... 14 people
x pounds of pasta = ? ... 56 people

3 * 56 = 14 * x      /14
x = 3 * 56 / 14
x = 12 pounds of pasta

The correct result would be 12 pounds of pasta.