Question

9. A recipe for banana bread requires cups 1/3

of bananas for every 1/2 cups of sugar used.
At this rate, how many cups of sugar should
be used if 1 cup of bananas is used?

Answer 1

4 cups of sugar will be added with 2 cups of banana in the banana recipe.

Explanation:

A recipe for banana bread requires 3 cups of banana and cups of sugar.

To calculate the cups of sugar used with 2 cups of bananas we will use unitary method.

∵ cups of sugar is used with amount of banana = 3 cups

∴ 1 cup of sugar will be used with banana =

∴ 2 cups of sugar will be used with banana = =

= 4 cups

Therefore, 4 cups of sugar will be added with 2 cups of banana in the banana recipe.