If eighteen ounces of dough are used to make a sixteen-inch pizza, how many ounces are used for a twenty-inch pizza?
You actually have to make some assumptions here. The most important one is that the dough is equally thick in both pizzas. That means that the amount of dough in a pizza is proportional to its area. So, you will need to remember that the area of a circle is Pi r2, where r is the radius of the circle and Pi is the famous number 3.14159... As always, be sure to explain the work you did to arrive at your answers!
As always, be sure to explain the work you did to arrive at your answers!
If eighteen ounces of dough are used to make a sixteen-inch
pizza, how many ounces are used for a twenty-inch pizza?
As always, be sure to explain the
work you did to arrive
at your answers!