Question

A recipe calls for 1/2 cup sugar and 1 cup flour. If you use 1 3/4 cup flour, how many cups of sugar would you need?

Answer 1

`(7)/(8)\text{ cups of sugar}`

Here, we want to get the number of cups of sugar

From what we have, we can see that the ratio between the cups of sugar and cups of flour is 1/2 ratio 1 which is 1:2

So, for every cup of sugar, there would be 2 cups of flour

To get the cups of sugar given the cups of flour, we simply divide the cup of flour by 2

Mathematically, we have this as;

`\begin{gathered} 1(3)/(4)\text{ divided by 2} \\ =\text{ }(7)/(4)*(1)/(2)\text{ = }(7)/(8) \end{gathered}`