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A recipe calls for 3 1/2 cups of flour and 3/4 cup of sugar. If you want to make the recipe with 6 cups of flour, how much sugar will you need? Show your work.

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Answer:

1 2/7 cups of sugar

Explanation:

You can use a proportion.

To make it easier to write the proportion, we rewrite the numbers as decimals.

3 1/2 = 3.5

3/4 = 0.75

Let x be the unknown amount of sugar.

3.5 cups of flour is to 0.75 cup of sugar as 6 cups of flour is to x cups of sugar.

3.5/0.75 = 6/x

Cross multiply.

3.5x = 0.75 * 6

3.5x = 4.5

x = 4.5/3.5 = 45/35 = 9/7 = 1 2/7

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