Melanie is making lemonade for a family barbecue. Her recipe which yields 1 pitcher contains 6 cups of water, 2 cups of sugar and 1 cup of lemon juice. If she wants to make 3 pitchers of lemonade, how many cups of sugar
will she need?

Well for 1 pitcher of lemonade she needs atleast 2 cups, so if she were to make 3 pitchers that would be 2 cups for each pitcher. Solution is to just multiply 2cups to the number of pitchers:

2cups x 3 pitchers = 6 cups

Melanie would need 6 cups of sugar if she were to make 3 pitchers of lemonade. :))