One cup of popcorn kernels make four cups of popped corn. There are six cups of kernels in a bag. How many cups of popped corn will one bag make?

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Answer 1 · 2016-08-17T13:15:24

$24$ cups.

these values are in direct proportion.More bags will produce more popped corn.

$1/4 = 6/x$

Find the cross product:

$x = 4xx6 = 24$ cups

Or:

1 cup of kernals makes ..... 4 cups popped corn.
6 x 1 cups of kernals make ....6 x 4 cups = 24 cups popped corn.

Answer 2 · 2016-08-17T13:19:40

24 cups of popped corn.

1 cup of kernel → 4 popped corn

6 cups of kernel → $(4xx6)" popped corn"$

Hence 6 cups of kernel → 24 popped corn