Question

Ake is making pancakes for his family. The recipe for 50 pancakes is below.

8 cups of flour

3 cups of sugar

6 cups of milk

4 eggs

Jake only wants to make 1/4 batch of pancakes. How many cups of flour will he need?

Answer 1

He needs 2 cups of flour.

Explanation:

8 cups is needed for 50 pancakes. And he wants to make a fourth of that. One fourth is 25% and so he will need to take away the remainder, which is 3/4 (75%). So, what is 25% of 8? The answer is 2.

Answer 2

He will need 96 cups of flour, 36 cups of sugar, 72 cups of milk, and 48 cups of eggs.

Explanation:

He wants to make 1/4 of the 50 pancakes stated above. So if you divide 50 by 4 you get 12.5 and when you multiple 12.5 by 8 you get 96 cups.