Given:
A recipe uses 4 pounds of rice and 5 quarts of boiling water.
To find:
The rate of rice to quarts of water for this recipe.
Solution:
We need to divide the amount of rice by amount of water to get the rate of rice to quarts of water for this recipe.
[tex]\text{Required rate}=\dfrac{\text{Rice in pounds}}{\text{Water in quarts}}[/tex]
[tex]\text{Required rate}=\dfrac{4}{5}[/tex]
[tex]\text{Required rate}=0.8[/tex]
Therefore, the rate of rice to quarts of water for this recipe is 0.8.
