A 16 pound roast will feed 24 people. If the largest roast you can buy is 12 pounds. How many people can you feed?
Set up a proportion of roast pounds to people fed, where p is the number of people fed on a 12 pound roast:
16/24 = 12/p
Run this through our proportion calculator by typing 16/24 = 12/p into our search engine.
We get p = 18.
A 12 pound roast will feed 18 people.
Set up a proportion of roast pounds to people fed, where p is the number of people fed on a 12 pound roast:
16/24 = 12/p
Run this through our proportion calculator by typing 16/24 = 12/p into our search engine.
We get p = 18.
A 12 pound roast will feed 18 people.