Question

When Meriden made a cake she used a recipe calling for 3/4 cup of sugar. She was planning to make a huge cake for a family get-together, which means that she was going to triple the recipe (three times the ingredients). How much sugar will she need?

Answer 1

3/4 x 3 would be 9/4 which is also 2 and 1/4 cups :)

Answer 2

9/4 cup of sugar.

Explanation:

It has been given that

3/4 cup of sugar is needed to make a cake.

Now, she has decided to make a huge cup which needs to triple amount of ingredients that she needs in a single cake.

Therefore, in order to make the huge cake of her family she needs three times of 3/4 cup of sugar.

Hence,

`(3)/(4)*3\\\\=(9)/(4)`

Therefore, she needs 9/4 cup of sugar.