Question

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?

Answer 1

`24` cups.

Explanation:

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

24 cups of popped corn.

Explanation:

1 cup of kernel → 4 popped corn

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

Hence 6 cups of kernel → 24 popped corn