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A recipe uses 6 cups of flour to 1 1/10 cups of milk. If you have 2 cups of flour, how much milk should you use?

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We were told that the recipe uses 6 cups of flour to 1 1/10 cups of milk. Converting 1 1/10 to improper fraction, it becomes 11/10

Let x represent the number of cups of milk that would be used for 2 cups of flour. The equations would be as shown below

11/10 = 6

x = 2

By cross multiplying, we have

2 * 11/10 = 6 * x

6x = 22/10 = 11/5

x = (11/5) / 6

If we flip 6 such that it becomes 1/6, the division sign changes to multiplication. Thus, we have

x = 11/5 * 1/6 = 11/30

Thus, 11/30 cup of milk should be used

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