SOLUTION: Your father is planning to cook for 35 people using a recipe that specifies one and a fourth cups of sugar for each six people. For the larger group your father will require ___

SOLUTION: Your father is planning to cook for 35 people using a recipe that specifies one and a fourth cups of sugar for each six people. For the larger group your father will require ____

Question 1035949: Your father is planning to cook for 35 people using a recipe that specifies one and a fourth cups of sugar for each six people.
For the larger group your father will require ____ cups of sugar
Answer by fractalier(6550) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
We can use proportions to solve this one...like this...

Now cross-multiply and solve for x...
6x = 43.75
x = 43.75/6 = 7.29 cups sugar
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