Question

This recipe makes 30 shortbread fingers.

Rose follows this recipe, but only wants to make 6 fingers.
How much of each ingredient does she need?

Recipe: Makes 30
120 g butter
60 g sugar
180 g flour​

Answer 1

24 g butter

12 g sugar

36 g flour

Explanation:

The recipe makes 30 shortbread fingers.

She wants to make 6 fingers.

6/30 = 1/5

She wants to make 1/5 of the recipe, so she needs 1/5 of each ingredient's amount.

Divide each amount by 5.

Recipe:

Makes 30 30/5 = 6 Makes 6

120 g butter 120/5 = 24 24 g butter

60 g sugar 60/5 = 12 12 g sugar

180 g flour​ 180/5 = 36 36 g flour