A meatball recipe has a ratio of 2 cups of breadcrumb mixture to 3 pounds of ground meat. How much breadcrumb mixture is there for 1 pound of ground meat?

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Meowing Cat
May 24, 2018

#0.666...# cups

Explanation:

#2:3#
#x:1#

You need to find the link between the two...

#3/3=1#

And because we know anything you do to one side you have to do to the other, you have to do #2/3#

#2/3=0.666...#

We can write this as #0.6# with a dot above it!

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