Question

The table shows the recipe for one cookie.

Ingredient
Amount (cups)
egg white
flour
0.5
sugar
A baker makes 6 cookies following the recipe exactly. How much more flour does the baker use than sugar to make 6 cookies?
o 1 cup
O cup
O 1 cups
O 2 cups
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Answer 1

Answer: 1
`(1)/(2)` cups

Explanation:

First, you have to find the number of cups of flour & sugar needed to make 6 cookies. It is not necessary to find egg white, since you do not need it to find the difference of the number of flour and sugar.
To find the number of flour, multiply the cups of flour needed for one cookie with 6, to find the total number of cups for 6 cookies.

6 ·
`(1)/(2)` = 3 cups

You need 3 total cups of flour to make 6 cookies.
Repeat this process with the sugar.
6 ·
`(1)/(4)` = 1
`(1)/(2)` cups

You need 1
`(1)/(2)` total cups of sugar to make 6 cookies.

Subtract the two numbers to find the solution.

3 - 1
`(1)/(2)` = 1
`(1)/(2)` cups

The baker uses 1
`(1)/(2)` more cups of flour than sugar to make 6 cookies.