A chicken salad recipe calls for 1 8
pound of chicken per serving. How many pounds of chicken are needed to make 1

or

Step-by-step explanation:

The complete exercise is: "A chicken salad recipe calls for pound of chicken per serving . How many pounds of chicken are needed to make  serving".

You can convert the Mixed number to a Decimal number. Divide the numerator 1 by the denominator 2 and then add the quotient to the Whole number. Then, you get:

Now divide the numerator 1 by the denominator 8 to write the fraction to a Decimal number. Then:

Let be "x" the amount of pounds are needed to make  serving.

Then, you can set up the following proportion:

Solving for "x", you get:

or

answer: 1722

step-by-step explanation:

given: the mass of saturn=

the mass of mercury=

the number of times the mass of saturn is greater than the mass of mercury

hence, the mass of saturn is 1722 times greater than the mass of mercury.