IXL | Multi-step problems with customary unit conversions

Matthew is taking an Indian cooking class. To practice, he makes a meal for his family. He uses 1 cup of cream to make chicken curry. He also uses 3 cups of cream to make cinnamon rice pudding. How many pints of cream does Matthew use for this meal?

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Joseph is making soft pretzel nuggets. His recipe says that, after he makes the dough, he should divide it into 8 equal pieces. Then, he needs to roll each piece into a 2-foot-long rope and cut it into nuggets. If he decides to make each pretzel nugget 1 inch long, how many can he make in all?

pretzel nuggets

key idea

There are 12 inches in 1 foot.

solution

You need to find how many pretzel nuggets Joseph can make. But first, you need to know how much dough he makes in all.

Joseph has 8 equal pieces of dough. He needs to roll each piece into a 2-foot-long rope.

Joseph has 16 feet of dough, but each pretzel nugget is 1 inch long. So, find how many inches are in 16 feet. There are 12 inches in a foot, so multiply by 12.

192

Joseph has 192 inches of dough. Since each pretzel nugget is 1 inch long, he can make 192 pretzel

nuggets.

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