Question

A certain recipe calls for 3 kgs of sugar for every 6 kgs of flour. If 60 kgs of

this sweet has to be prepared, how much sugar is required?

Answer 1

you'll need 30 kgs of sugar to prepare this sweet.

Explanation:

what we know:

for every 6 kgs of flour we have 3kgs of sugar.

simplist form:

for 3 kg of flour you'll need 1 kg of sugar.

what we want to know:

how many kgs of sugar are needed if 60 kgs of flour are used?

60 ÷ 3= 30

you'll need 30 kgs of sugar to balance out the 60 kgs of flour.