Question

Current Attempt in Progress You are to fix dinners for 280 people at a convention of Mexican food fans. Your recipe calls for 4 jalapeño peppers per serving (one serving per person) However, you have only habanero peppers on hand. The spiciness of peppers is measured in terms of the scoville heat unit (SHU). On average, one jalapeio pepper has a spiciness of 4000 SHU and one habanero pepper has a spiciness of 300000 SHU. To get the desired spiciness, how many habanero peppers should you substitute for the jalapeño peppers in the recipe for the 280 dinners? tielts

Answer 1

The numbers of jalapeno peppers in one reipe is u. : Total number for 280 dishes is n=48280 n=1120 spiciness of one jalapeno beppen is 4000 SHU ir spiciness of 1120 bet jalapeno pepper is N=1120 X4000 SHU Now the spiciness cef one habanero pepper is 300,000 SHU Number cef habanoro peppes requis required to match the spiciness of 1120 jalapeno peppers are No = 1120 x4°42 . 3o8, 600 = 112X4 30 No 14.9 No=is habanero peppersa