Manny makes dinner using 1 box of pasta and 1 jar of sauce problem if pasta is sold in packages of 4 boxes and sauce is sold of packages of 2

Buy 1 package of pasta and 2 packages of sauce, then make 4 servings of pasta.

Step-by-step explanation:

You need to get pasta and sauce in a 1:1 ratio. To do this with the least number of purchases buy 2 sauces and 1 pasta. I hope this is what your problem was asking because it wasn’t very clear.

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step-by-step explanation:

step-by-step explanation:

this can be solved first with pythagorean theorem, which tells us to square both legs of the triangle and sum it. this will be equal to the square of the hypotenuse.

the hypotenuse is the side "opposite" the 90 degree angle, which is x.

so we can write using pythagorean theorem,

simplifying:

to further simplify this radical, we need to use the property  

thus