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the ratio of sugar to flour is 2:3 . if there are 6 cups of sugar, how many cups of flour are there? come some one please help me with this.

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You need to set up a proportion: 2/3=6/x then you need to cross multiply and get 2x=18 after that your last step is to solve this one-step equation, so the answer to your question is x=9 or 9 cups of flour
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