Question

A recipe for eight flapjacks needs 25g butter, 30g sugar and 50g rolled oats. How many flapjacks can I make if I have 150g butter, 150g sugar, 150g rolled oats?

Answer 1

With that amount of ingredients we can make 24 flapjacks.

Explanation:

In order to know how many flapjacks we can make with that amount of ingredients we first need to know how many of each ingredient is needed for one flapjack. To do that we need to divide each ingredient by eight. We have:

For one flapjack:

butter = 25/8 = 3.125 g

sugar = 30/8 = 3.75 g

rolled oats = 50/8 = 6.25 g

Since the total amount of flapjacks will be limited by the ingredient that is most required in the recipe (rolled oats), we need to divide the total of that ingredient that we have by the amount required for one flapjack in order to know how many we can make.

number of flapjacks = 150/6.25 = 24 flapjacks

With that amount of ingredients we can make 24 flapjacks.

Answer 2

Answer: 24 flapjack s

Explanation:

Given that A recipe for eight flapjacks needs 25g butter, 30g sugar and 50g rolled oats.

The highest value is 50g rolled oats

How many flapjacks can I make if I have 150g butter, 150g sugar, 150g rolled oats?

Let's consider the oats

150/50 = 3

The total number of flapjacks will be 8 × 3 = 24 flapjack