SOLUTION: On Friday evening, Mr. Brown wanted to make a chocolate cake, but did not want to make a full recipe. He decided that 2/3 of a cake would fit nicely in a smaller sized pan. Some of
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Question 935406: On Friday evening, Mr. Brown wanted to make a chocolate cake, but did not want to make a full recipe. He decided that 2/3 of a cake would fit nicely in a smaller sized pan. Some of the ingredients in the original recipe called for 2 cups of flour, 1/2 cup cocoa, 3 eggs, 3/4 cup sugar and 1 tablespoon butter. In lowest terms, determine how much of each ingredient should Mr. Brown use for his smaller cake to keep the recipe in the proper proportion? Show work!
Flour:
Cocoa:
Eggs:
Sugar:
Butter: Found 2 solutions by TimothyLamb, MathLover1:Answer by TimothyLamb(4379) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! (2/3)*2 = 4/3 cups of flour
(2/3)*(1/2) = 1/3 cup cocoa
(2/3)*3 = 2 eggs
(2/3)*(3/4) = 1/2 cup sugar
(2/3)*1 = 2/3 tablespoon butter
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You can put this solution on YOUR website!
he will need of each
of cups of flour, =>cups of flour of cup cocoa, => cup cocoa of eggs, =>}eggs of cup sugar and =>cup sugar of tablespoon butter. => tablespoon of butter.
