Question

Lashon is bring to make cupcakes to take to school for her friends birthday.They recipe that she got from her mom required 3/4 cup of sugar and 1/8 cup of butter . Lashon accidentally put a whole cup of butter in the cupcake mix. To correct the error , Lashon decides to add more sugar so that she has the same ratio of sugar to butter that the original recipe requires. How much sugar should Lshon add to the mix to fix her error ?

Answer 1

Lashon require 6 cups of sugar to fix the error.

Explanation:

Original recipe = 3/4 sugar + 1/8 cup of butter

This actually means for each 1/8 cup butter we need 3/4 of the sugar to be added

error = 1 cup butter added

to correct this we need

we know that 1 cup butter = 8 such mixtures could be made

but now 1 cup was added so

the sugar required =
`(3)/(4)*8` = 6 cup of sugars