Question

A recipe called for the ratio of eggs to cups of sugar to be 2:1. If you needed to use 6 eggs, how many cups of sugar would you need to use?

a.1 cup
b.3 cups
c.4 cups
d.6 cups

Answer 1

u would have 3 cups of sugar

Explanation:

Answer 2

b.3 cups

Explanation:

Since the ratio is 2:1 it means that for every 2 eggs you will have 1 cup of sugar.

2/1 multiped by 6/x

Cross multiply 6(1) and 2(x)

6 = 2x

Divide both sides by 2 to get the variable by itself.

3 = x