Question

Michael is baking cookies. His cookie recipe calls for 1 3/4 cups sugar and makes

24 cookies. If he wants to scale the recipe to make exactly 18 cookies, how
many cups of sugar will he need? Express your answer as a mixed number


HELP pls SHOW ur work pls thanks

Answer 1

1 and 5 over 16

Explanation:

So for this equation, cross multiplication is the most suitable to answer it. So

1 and 3 over 4 = 24

x = 18

24x = 18 multiplied by 1 and 3 over 4

24x = 31.5 / 24

x = 1 and 5 over 16 cups of sugar