Question

Jonah has a recipe that uses 1 ½ cups of brown sugar and 2 ⅓ cups of flour to make 24 muffins. He has a total of 7 cups of flour. Jonah wants to use all of his flour to make as many muffins as possible using the recipes. Part A: Exactly how many cups of brown sugar will Jonah use, if he uses all 7 cups of flour? Part B: Exactly how many muffins will Jonah make if he uses all 7 cups of flour?

Answer 1

Part A: 4.5 cups

Part B: 3

Explanation:

Part A:

We will have to find how many muffins he will make first if he uses all 7 cups.

# of muffins = 7/(2 + 1/3) = 3

Cups of sugar = 3 * (1 +1/2) = 4.5 cups

Part B:

We solved this in Part A

The number of muffins is 3