Mary is making a spinach quiche. She takes 40 ounces of raw spinach and cooks it until it's 20% of its initial volume. If she mixes the spinach with 6 ounces of cream cheese and 4 ounces of eggs, what is the total volume of the quiche? Give me reasons, before answering the question
First find the cooked volume of the spinach: 40 ounces * 20% = 8 ounces. Then add that to the volume of the other ingredients to find the total volume: 8 ounces + 6 ounces + 4 ounces = 18 ounces. So the final answer is 18.