SOLUTION: Your father is planning to cook for 20 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 1171211: Your father is planning to cook for 20 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 ikleyn(52879) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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One and a fourth is  1 ,  or  1.25.


Next you write the proportion


     = .


From the proportion, you find


    x =  =  = 4  cups of sugar.   ANSWER

Solved.

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