Question

A bread recipe calls for 4 eggs for every 1 ½ pounds of flour you use. If you had 12 pounds of flour, how many eggs would you need to make all the bread that you could? Hint: set up a proportion.

Answer 1

you would need 36 eggs

Explanation:

you need 36 eggs because you can put 1/12 into 12 9 times without going over and 9 times 4 is 36.