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A recipe uses 5 cups of flour to 1 1/10 of milk. If you have 2 cups of flour, how much milk should you use?

User Graham Asher
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Given:

A recipe uses 5 cups of flour to 1 1/10 of milk.

We will find the amount of milk if we have 2 cups of flour

So, we can write the following ratio

Milk : Flour

11/10 : 5

x : 2

We can find (x) using the cross product:


x=(2)/(5)*(11)/(10)=(11)/(25)

So, the answer will be 11/25 milk

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