Question

Ann increased the quantities of all the ingredients in a recipe by 60\%60%60, percent. She used 808080 grams (\text{g})(g)left parenthesis, start text, g, end text, right parenthesis of cheese. How much cheese did the recipe require?

Answer 1

50 grams

Explanation:

Let the amount of cheese required by the recipe be "x"

Ann increased 60% from original amount and then used up 80 grams. Thus:

Original, increased by 60%, became 80

This translated to algebraic equation would be:

x + 0.6x = 80

Note: 60% = 60/100 = 0.6

So we can solve the above equation for "x" and get our answer. Shown below:

`x + 0.6x = 80\\1.6x=80\\x=(80)/(1.6)\\x=50`

Hence,

the recipe required 50 grams of cheese