Question

This recipe makes 20 cupcakes. Deepak only wants to make 8 cupcakes. How much of each ingredient does he need? Recipe: Makes 20 cupcakes 12 ounces butter 8 ounces sugar 10 ounces flour 5 eggs

Answer 1

To make 8 cupcakes instead of 20, Deepak needs: 4.8 ounces of butter, 8 ounces of sugar, 5 ounces of flour, and 2.5 eggs.

Step-by-step explanation:

To find out how much of each ingredient Deepak needs to make 8 cupcakes instead of 20, we can set up a proportion using the number of cupcakes as the basis of comparison.

Let's start with the butter: 12 ounces of butter are needed for 20 cupcakes. We can set up the proportion:

12 ounces / 20 cupcakes = x ounces / 8 cupcakes

Cross multiplying, we get: 20x = 12 * 8. Solving for x, we find that Deepak needs 4.8 ounces of butter for 8 cupcakes.

Following the same process, we can determine the amounts of sugar, flour, and eggs needed for 8 cupcakes.

For sugar: 8 ounces of sugar

For flour: 5 ounces of flour

For eggs: 2.5 eggs (since eggs cannot be divided, Deepak can use 2 eggs and roughly half of the third egg).