Question

Junior has a recipe that uses 1 3/4 cups of brown sugar and 3 1/3 cups of flour to make 18 muffins. He has a total of 10 cups of flour. Junior wants to use all his flour to make as many muffins as possible using this recipe. Exactly how many muffins will Junior make if he uses all 10 cups of flour? Think: How many groups of 3 1/3 cups equals 10 cups total. Don’t forget each batch makes 18 muffins.

Answer 1

54 muffins

Explanation:

Given that:

Cups of flour used to make recipe = 3 1/3 cups

Total cups of flour = 10 cups

Number of muffins per recipe = 18

Number of recipes that can be made from 10 cups of flour :

Total cups of flour / cups of flour per recipe

10 ÷ 3 1/3

10 ÷ 10/3

10 * 3/10

30 /10

= 3 recipes

Total number of muffins :

Number of muffins per recipe * number of recipe

18 * 3 = 54 muffins