Question

A chocolate chip cookie recipe called for the ratio of sugar to flour to be 8:7. if you used 48 ounce of sugar, how many ounces of flour would you need to use

Answer 1

Let:

x = Amount of sugar:

y = Amount of flour

The chocolate chip cookie recipe called for the ratio of sugar to flour to be 8:7, so:

`(x)/(y)=(8)/(7)`

If you use 48oz of sugar:

`\begin{gathered} (48)/(y)=(8)/(7) \\ \text{Solving for y:} \\ y=(48\cdot7)/(8)=42 \end{gathered}`

Therefore, you would need to use 42oz of flour