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Question 1206315: Philip is making chocolate cupcakes for a school bake sale. He makes 4 batches and uses up an entire 5-cup bag of wheat flour. Philip decides to make one more batch of cupcakes with almond flour instead. The recipe says to add an extra
3/4 cup of flour if you're using almond flour.
Which equation can you use to find how much almond flour, a, is needed to make a batch of cupcakes?
Answer by ikleyn(52903)   (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! .
Philip is making chocolate cupcakes for a school bake sale.
He makes 4 batches and uses up an entire 5-cup bag of wheat flour.
Philip decides to make one more batch of cupcakes with almond flour instead.
The recipe says to add an extra 3/4 cup of flour if you're using almond flour.
Which equation can you use to find how much almond flour, a, is needed to make a batch of cupcakes?
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For one batch of chocolate cupcakes, Philip uses  cups of wheat flour.
For one batch of chocolate cupcakes, cups plus extra  of a cup
of almond flour are needed.
To get the answer, calculate the sum
+ =  = 2 cups.
ANSWER. For one batch of chocolate cupcakes, 2 cups of almond flour are needed.
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As the text is posted, it is not, surely, a Math problem,
because it admits different interpretations.
The solution which I presented here, relates to one possible interpretation.
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