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A recipe that makes 5 servings of hot chocolate requires 2 squares of chocolate, 1/4 cup sugar, 1 cup water and 4 cups milk. Jordan has 5 squares of chocolate, 2 cups of sugar, lots of water and 7 cups of milk. If she maintains the same ratio of ingredients, what is the greatest number of servings of hot chocolate she can make?
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solution: For each serving, she uses 2/5 square chocolate, 1/20 cup sugar, 1/5 cup water and 4/5 cups milk. Now we consider greatest number of each ingrediant. Chicolate: 5/0.4=12.5. Sugar: 2/0.05 = 40. Milk: 7/0.8=8.75. So she could make 8 servings at most.