Question

A recipe says to use 3 cups of flour to make 48 cookies. What is the constant of proportionality that relates the number of cookies made, y, to the number of cups of flour used, x ?

plz help. I am confusion.

Answer 1

The answer is 16
You just have to do 48 divided by 3 to get the constant of proportionality, it is like finding unit rate

Answer 2

Answer

Find out the what is the constant of proportionality .

To prove

As given

A recipe says to use 3 cups of flour to make 48 cookies.

the number of cookies made, y, to the number of cups of flour used,x .

Than

y = kx

Where k is the constant of proportionality.

48 = 3k

k = 16

Therefore the constant of proportionality is 16.