Question

Milo's pancake recipe makes 9 servings. It calls for 3/4 cup milk. Milo wants to make 6 servings. How much milk will he need?

Answer 1

1/2 cup of milk for 6 servings

Answer 2

It says that the recipe for 9 servings would require 3/4 cup milk.

He wants to prepare recipe for 6 servings. Let's assume it requires X cups milk.

Now we can use concept of proportions to solve this problem.

The proportion of X cups for 6 servings would be same as 3/4 cup milk for 9 servings. Mathematically, we can write it as follows :-

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Hence, we require
`(1)/(2)` cup milk for 6 servings.