Ricardo's recipe for 4 loaves of bread requires cup of olive oil. He only wants to make 1 loaf. Ricardo makes a model to find out how much oil he needs to use. He folds a piece of paper vertically into six parts
and shades four parts. Then he folds the paper horizontally into four parts and shades - of the shaded
part
. Ricardo decides he needs cup of olive oil.
Is he right? Complete the explanation. Give your answer as a simplified fraction.
He used the number of parts he shaded, 16, as the denominator. He should have used the total number of
parts, 28. Ricardo needs
Or
cup of olive oil.
28