Jack is making a cake using his mom's recipe. the recipe requires 1 1/2 cups of milk. he plans to make 2 1/2 cakes. How much total milk will he need for his cakes?

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Anders Cedronius · Answer 1 · 2023-09-07T04:19:28+0000

Step-by-step explanation:

Given that for one cake the amount of milk used is

Let number of cup sof milk to be used of 2 1/2 cakes be represented as

By applying the comination below, we will have th expression as

$\begin{gathered} 1cake=1(1)/(2)cups \\ 2(1)/(2)cakes=x \end{gathered}$

Cross multiply, we will have

$\begin{gathered} 1* x=1(1)/(2)*2(1)/(2) \\ x=(3)/(2)*(5)/(2) \\ x=(15)/(4) \\ x=3(3)/(4)cups \end{gathered}$

Hence,

The total milk he will need for 2 1/2 cakes will be

$3(3)/(4)\text{ }cups\text{ }of\text{ }milk$