SOLUTION: A cake recipe serves 3 people, and calls for 1.25 cups of flour and 2 cups of sugar. I have 3.25 cups of flour, and 8.75 cups of sugar. If I use the recipe to bake the largest cake
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Question 153570: A cake recipe serves 3 people, and calls for 1.25 cups of flour and 2 cups of sugar. I have 3.25 cups of flour, and 8.75 cups of sugar. If I use the recipe to bake the largest cake possible with these ingredients, how many people will it serve?
Please help me.
Thank you so much
Answer by jojo14344(1513) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Theoritically, calls for 1.25 cups of flour + 2 cups of sugar to serve 3 people. Now if double the # of people to ,
then he ingredients doubled too. It make sense right?
For 6: cups of flour + cups of sugar.
let's see if we can add another 1.25 cups of flour + 2 cups of sugar for another 3 people: cups of flour. STOP THERE! You have only 3.25 cups of flour so it won't work, unless you do ratio & Proportion but THAT"S NOT THE RECIPE CALLS FOR.
So the total only for the largest cake is 6 people.
Thank you,
Jojo
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