Question

Imagine you are the pastry chef at your favorite restaurant. The manager has just told you that you have a large crowd coming in for lunch tomorrow and you need to prepare. This project includes a recipe for cupcakes for dessert. You are expecting 108 people, but the recipe does not serve that many people, so you will need to adjust the ingredients so there will be enough. For example, if a recipe serves 8 people and you need to feed 32 people, what would you need to do? You would have to make 4 times as much as the original recipe makes, which means that you would need to multiply the amount of each ingredient by 4, since 8*4 = 32.

Answer 1

To adjust the cupcake recipe to serve 108 people, you will need to follow these steps:

Determine how many cupcakes the original recipe makes. Let's say the original recipe makes 12 cupcakes.

Calculate how many batches of cupcakes you will need to make to serve 108 people. To do this, divide the number of people by the number of cupcakes in one batch: 108 ÷ 12 = 9. You will need to make 9 batches of cupcakes.

Multiply the amount of each ingredient in the original recipe by 9. For example, if the original recipe calls for 2 cups of flour, you will need 18 cups of flour (2 cups x 9 batches).

Follow the same process for all of the ingredients in the recipe, making sure to adjust each one by the same factor.

Prepare the cupcakes according to the adjusted recipe, baking each batch separately.

By following these steps, you should be able to adjust the cupcake recipe to serve the large crowd coming in for lunch tomorrow.

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