The snack bar at your school has added sushi to its menu. The ingredients for one roll include sushi rice, seaweed sheets, cucumbers, cream cheese, and 5oz of smoked salmon. One roll can be cut into 8 servings. Write an expression for the amount of salmon needed to make s serving of sushi. How much salmon is needed to make 16 servings? 32 servings? 80 servings? 100 servings?

10 oz of salmon is needed for 16 servings

20 oz of salmon is needed for 32 servings

50 oz of salmon needed for 80 servings

62.5 oz of salmon needed for 100 servings

Solution:

Given that,

One roll can be cut into 8 servings

The ingredients for one roll include sushi rice, seaweed sheets, cucumbers, cream cheese, and 5oz of smoked salmon

1 roll is 8 servings and it is made of 5 oz of smoked salmon

Which means that, 5 oz of smoked salmon is needed fo 8 servings

Write an expression for the amount of salmon needed to make s serving of sushi

Where, s = serving

Thus 10 oz of salmon is needed for 16 servings

Thus 20 oz of salmon is needed for 32 servings

Thus 50 oz of salmon needed for 80 servings

Thus 62.5 oz of salmon needed for 100 servings