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Question 907278: Hi, I'm really stumped and would love some help. A cafeteria is trying to scale a small pancake recipe up in order to feed a group of tourists. The recipe feeds 6 people and the cafeteria is trying to feed 75. The recipe calls for 4 cups of flour and 1 1/2 cups of milk and 1/2 cup of sugar. The real question is If there are 4 cups in a quart and 4 quarts in a gallon, will we more or less need a gallon of milk for this recipe?
Found 2 solutions by josgarithmetic, MathTherapy:
Answer by josgarithmetic(39623) (Show Source):
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If you understood the other solution for this recipe about the sugar, then you can certainly figure how to answer the question on this same recipe about the milk.

Same scaling factor.
cups of milk needed. Your other conversion ratios are correct. Whether is is more or less a gallon is what you need to figure out; which is why you should understand the earlier solution answer about the sugar.

Answer by MathTherapy(10555) (Show Source):
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Hi, I'm really stumped and would love some help. A cafeteria is trying to scale a small pancake recipe up in order to feed a group of tourists. The recipe feeds 6 people and the cafeteria is trying to feed 75. The recipe calls for 4 cups of flour and 1 1/2 cups of milk and 1/2 cup of sugar. The real question is If there are 4 cups in a quart and 4 quarts in a gallon, will we more or less need a gallon of milk for this recipe?

Cups of milk needed: 18.75
Gallons of milk in 18.75 cups: , or gallons.
Is this more or less than 1 gallon?