SOLUTION: Carly is baking three cakes. The second cake requires 1/2 cup more flour than the first cake. The third cake requires twice the amount of flour as the first cake. The two puns bag

Question 1001108: Carly is baking three cakes. The second cake requires 1/2 cup more flour than the first cake. The third cake requires twice the amount of flour as the first cake. The two puns bag of flour she bought has 8 and 1/2 cup exactly the amount she needs. How much flour is needed for each cake?
Answer by josgarithmetic(39617) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
x, number of cups of flour for cake1.
cake2 uses cups flour.
cake3 uses cups of flour.

The number of cups of flour is , and this number of cups is the cups of flour bought in the two-pound (puns?) bag of flour.

, the number of cups flour used for the cake1.
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