Question

A chocolate chip cookie recipe ask for one and one half times as much flour as chocolate chips. If three and three quarters cups of flour is used what quantity of chocolate chips would then be needed according to the recipe?

Answer 1

1/2 a cup.

Explanation:

3.5 times as much flour as chocolate chips....

f = 3.5c

f = 1 3/4 (or 1.75)

1.75 = 3.5c

1.75 / 3.5 = c

0.5 = c......chocolate chips needed would be 1/2 a cup

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