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:

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