Question

A pancake recipe requires two and two thirds cups of milk to one cup of flour. If four and two thirds cups of milk is used, what quantity of flour will be needed, according to the recipe?

Answer 1

There will need to be 2 and 1/3 cups of flour according to the recipe

Explanation:

Given the recipe, we can say that for each 2 and 2/3s cups of milk, one cup of flour is used. We can write this as ( 2 + 2/3) cups of milk / (1) cup of flour.

We can also write 2 + 2/3 as 2*(3/3) + 2/3 = 6/3 + 2/3 = 8/3, making our ratio

(8/3) / 1

The ratio stays the same, no matter how many cups of milk or flour are used. Therefore, (8/3) /1 = (4 + 2/3) / cups of flour

Writing our final cups of flour as c, we can say

(8/3) / 1 = (4+2/3) / c

(4+2/3)/c = (12/3 + 2/3) /c = (14/3) /c

(8/3)/1 = (14/3) /c

anything divided by 1 is equal to itself

(8/3) = (14/3)/c

multiply both sides by c to make the variable not a denominator

(8/3) * c = 14/3

multiply both sides by 3 to remove the denominators

8 * c = 14

divide both sides by 8 to isolate the c

c = 14/8 = 7/3 = 6/3 + 1/3 = 2 + 1/3

There will need to be 2 and 1/3 cups of flour according to the recipe