Question

A recipe for 8 apple dash cinnamon muffins calls for 1 cup of flour. The number of muffins that can be made varies directly with the amount of flour used. There are 1 and three fourths cups of flour available. How many muffins can be​ made?

Answer 1

you can make 14 muffins

Explanation:

To get this answer you first need to know that 1 cup makes 8 muffins. Next know that there's 1 3/4 cups of flour. Because you know that 1 cup makes 8 muffins you need to figure out how many muffins 3/4 a cup of flour can make. To do this you divide 8 by 4. Hence 8 divided by 4 is 2. So know you know that for every 1/4 cup you can make 2 muffins. Now since there's 3/4 cup of flour you then multiply 2 by 3 which is 6. Now you have to add 1 cup ( 8 muffins) to 3/4 cup ( 6 muffins ) of flour which then equals 14. You then get the answer , 1 3/4 cups of flour can make 14 muffins. Hope this helped ;)