Question

To make a cake, Rose needed 2 cups of sugar. This is 3 cups less than the amount of flour she needed for the cake. Write a subtraction equation that could be used to find the amount of flour she needed for the cake.

Answer 1

We can write the subtraction equation as:

F - 3 = 2

Then, to solve for F, we can add 3 to both sides:

F = 5

Therefore, the amount of flour Rose needed for the cake was 5 cups.