document.write( "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. \n" ); document.write( "

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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

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