Question

Each sheet cake requires 3 cups of flour and 2 cups of sugar. If a bakery has 75 cups of flour and 75 cups of sugar, how many sheet cakes can be made? Enter the number in the box.

Answer 1

25

Explanation:

Since we have the same amount of each ingredient, the first step is to find out what will be the limiting ingredient (of which we need more quantity per cake) that ingredient is flour.

So the cakes we can make with 75 cups of flour will be the total cakes we can make.

since we need 3 cups of flour per cake:

`(75 cups)/(3cups/cake) =25 cakes`

we can make 25 cakes in total.

*sugar will be left over but because with 25 cakes the flour ends, this is the total amount of cakes we can make,