A chef planing for a large banquet thinks that 2 out of every 5 dinner guests will order his soup appetizer he expects 800 guest at the banquet use equivalent ratios to estimate how many cups of soup he should prepare

320 cups

Step-by-step explanation:

The question says that a chef who is planning for a large banquet believes that 2 out of every 5 dinner guests will order his soup appetizer and that he expects 800 guest at the banquet.

This means that for every 5 guests, 2 out of them will request his soup appetizer and out of 10 guest, 4 will request for the appetizer ams the trends follows like that

For 800 guests, the number of those that will request for the soup appetizer will be:

2/5*800 = 320 cups of soup

320 cups

Step-by-step explanation:

In this question, we are asked to provide an estimate of the number of cups of soup to be prepared by a chef.

We know that 2 out of 5 guests would order the food and thus we need to prepare for this. Now, since 2 are ordering, it means 3 are not ordering.

The ratio of the number of guest ordering to the number of guest not ordering is 2:3

Now, we are expecting 800 guests. So we use ratio to divide and know the number of cups we are to prepare for. Let's do this!

The total ratio is 5, to get the number, we simply put 2/5 * 800 = 320 guests

This means that the potential number of orders is 320 orders and thus the number of cups to prepare should be 320 cups