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4/5 for every 2 cups of flour to make 21 cups of batter how much of each ingredient do you use?

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Final answer:

To make 21 cups of batter, you would need 168/5 cups of the other ingredients.

Step-by-step explanation:

To find out how much of each ingredient to use to make 21 cups of batter, we need to set up a proportion using the given information. We know that for every 2 cups of flour, we need 4/5 of the other ingredients. So we set up the proportion:

4/5 = x/2

We can solve this proportion by cross-multiplying:

4/5 * 2 = x

8/5 = x

So we need to use 8/5 cups of the other ingredients for every 2 cups of flour. To find out how much of each ingredient we need for 21 cups of batter, we can set up a new proportion:

8/5 = x/21

Again, we cross-multiply to solve the proportion:

8/5 * 21 = x

168/5 = x

Therefore, we need to use 168/5 cups of the other ingredients to make 21 cups of batter.

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