The cookie recipe needs 3/4 cups of sugar and 1/8 cup of butter. Alice puts in 1 cup of butter by mistake. How much sugar will be needed?

asked Jul 16, 2019 91.3k views

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by Fosna

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Let's set up a proportion.

Let s = sugar

(1/8)/1 = (3/4)/s

(3/4) = s/8

(3/4)(8) = s

6 cups = s

Yugo answered Jul 22, 2019

by Yugo

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