Question

A recipe for pie crust calls for 2/3 cup of water for every 3 cups of flour. If you doubled the recipe, you would need 1 1/3 cups of water for 6 cups of flour. Which proportions involving complex fractions could represent these ratios? Check all that apply.

Answer 1

The proportions involving complex fractions that represent these ratios are:

1. 2/3 cup of water : 3 cups of flour
2. 1 1/3 cups of water : 6 cups of flour

Both of these proportions correctly represent the ratios specified in the problem.