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A pancake recipe asks for one and one-half times as much milk as flour. If three and one-half cups of milk are used, what quantity of flour would then be needed, according to the recipe?

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Step 1:

In this question, we are given the following:

A pancake recipe asks for one and one-half times as much milk as flour.

If three and one-half cups of milk are used, what quantity of flour would then be needed, according to the recipe?

Step 2:

The details of the solution are as follows:

The pancakes require 1.5 cups of milk and 1 cup of flour or a ratio of 1.5:1 or a fraction of

(1.5) / (1)

If you have 3.5 cups of milk you need x cups of flour

Set up a ratio of 1.5 / 1 = 3.5 / x

(1.5 divided by 1 equals 3.5 divided by x)

Cross multiply one numerator by the other denominator, and then the other way.

1.5x = 3.5

divide both sides by 1.5

x = 35/15 = 2 1/3 cups

CONCLUSION:

The quantity of flour that would be needed, according to the recipe =


2(1)/(3)\text{ cups}

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