Mia is making fruit salad cups. She wants to make sure each fruit cup weighs 8 ounces. For her ingredients, she has 24 ounces of apple slices, 32 ounces of dried cranberries, and 40 ounces of grapes. How many fruit salad cups can she make?

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Chewy

11 October, 00:00

Mia is making fruit salad cups. She wants to make sure each fruit cup weighs 8 ounces. For her ingredients, she has 24 ounces of apple slices, 32 ounces of dried cranberries, and 40 ounces of grapes. How many fruit salad cups can she make?

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Taniya · Answer 1

Step 1

Find the weight of the sum of the ingredients

Sum=24+32+40=96 ounces

Step 2

Divide the weight of the sum of the ingredients by the weight of one cup

so

(96/8) = 12 cups

therefore

the answer is

12 cups