SOLUTION: Clifford is making a really big white cake for his sister's birthday. The recipe calls for 1.5 times as much flour as sugar. It also calls for 1/2 as much butter as sugar. All the
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Question 993445: Clifford is making a really big white cake for his sister's birthday. The recipe calls for 1.5 times as much flour as sugar. It also calls for 1/2 as much butter as sugar. All the butter, flour, and sugar together total 7.5 cups. How much butter, sugar, and flour does clifford need? write and solve an equation.
Answer by solver91311(24713) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
What part don't you understand; writing the equation or solving the equation once you have written it?
[Student reply]: "I don't understand how to write the equation."
Let 
represent the number of cups of sugar. I chose sugar to be represented by the basic variable because everything else is expressed by a multiplier of the amount of sugar. The amount of flour is 
cups and the amount of butter is 
cups. The total is 7.5 cups so:
Solve for , then calculate and .
John
My calculator said it, I believe it, that settles it
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