SOLUTION: If a recipe that serves 8 people requires 2 cups of sugar, how much sugar is required if we prepare the recipe for a group of 19 people?

Question 701359: If a recipe that serves 8 people requires 2 cups of sugar, how much sugar is required if we prepare the recipe for a group of 19 people?
Found 2 solutions by stanbon, graphmatics:
Answer by stanbon(75887) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
If a recipe that serves 8 people requires 2 cups of sugar, how much sugar is required if we prepare the recipe for a group of 19 people?
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x sugar/19 people = 2sugar/8people
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x = 19(1/4)
x = 4 3/4 cups of sugar
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Cheers,
Stan H.
Answer by graphmatics(170) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Because the recipe that serves 8 people requires 2 cups of sugar, a single person uses cup of sugar. So if y is the amount of sugar required to prepare the recipe for a group of x people, then . So if is the size of the group of people for which we need an amount of sugar to be denoted by the variable y, then , so cups of sugar.
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