SOLUTION: A pancake recipe calls for milk to flour to sugar in a ratio of 3:2:1. Pancakes are being made for a large group and there is 7 cups of flour available, houw many cups of sugar and

Question 1148905: A pancake recipe calls for milk to flour to sugar in a ratio of 3:2:1. Pancakes are being made for a large group and there is 7 cups of flour available, houw many cups of sugar and milk are need to follow the recipe and use all the flour?
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Answer by josgarithmetic(39617) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

milk : flour : sugar
 3   :   2   :   1
 ?   :   7   :   ?

Multiply the numbers in the basic ratio by .

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The recipe ratio was given. The recipe uses "two parts" of flour, and the number of parts available is 7 parts of flour. How much bigger is the recipe that is needed? . Wanted is to use ALL of the available flour.

Milk?
"parts" or cups

Sugar?
"parts" or cups
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