Curtains

Ten years after moving into our house, we finally decided to trade the tired looking blinds in the living room and dining room for cozy curtains. First I went downtown to the fashion district, and purchased some lovely material. (see photo) Then, I did a lot of measuring of all the windows, and started sewing the curtains. Mr. Billett volunteered to pick out an order the curtain rods, rings and clips.
As he was looking for curtain rods online, he asked me how wide each panel was, so that he can figure out how many rings to get. The website we ordered from suggested four rings per foot. Unfortunately, I measured the curtains in centimeters, because I grew up in Hungary using the metric system, and feel more comfortable with it. When I told him the width of one panel was 230 cm, he had to do some math to figure out how many rings to order, keeping in mind that we will need two panels for one window. He did it, can you?

Pea Soup

Yesterday I was cooking pea soup for dinner. I found a great recipe on the internet, I had all the ingredients too. The recipe was for 300 grams of peas. (I found it on a Hungarian cooking website, we use the metric system in Hungary, so we measure weight in grams, not pounds.) When I looked at the package of frozen peas I had at home, it said it has 450 grams of peas. I wanted to use the whole bag, so I had to figure out how much of the other ingredients I should use. I did it, can you? Here are the original ingredients, your job is to figure out how much of each I should use, then email me with your answers and an explanation of how you figured them out. If you decide to comment on this post, tell me something about recipes and math, or the metric system. Good luck.

Pea Soup Ingredients
300 grams peas
3 deciliters milk
30 grams butter
1 tablespoon flour
1 teaspoon sugar
1 deciliter cream
1 egg yolk

PS: The soup came out delicious, even though it looks a little funny because it's bright green.