Mr. Smith has an online cooking show. Before he films an episode about baking the perfect pound cake, he prepares his ingredients. His recipe calls for 2 1 /2 cups of sugar for the cake and 1 1/ 4 cups of sugar for the vanilla glaze. How many 1 /4 -cup scoops of sugar does he need? Write your answer as a whole number, fraction, or mixed number. Simplify any fractions.
Answer:
15
Explanation:
We are given
Mr. Smith's recipe calls for 2 1/2 cups of sugar for the cake and 1 1/4 cups of sugar for the vanilla glaze.
The total amount of sugar he would need
2 1/2 + 1 1/4
= (2 + 1) + (1/2 + 1/4)
= 3 3/4 cups of sugar.
We need this amount of sugar in 1/4 cup scoops.
This is calculated as:
let x be the number of scoops needed
x * 1/4 = 3 3/4
x* 1/4 = 15/4 ( 3 3/4 = 15/4)
x= 15
Therefore, he would be needing 15 , 1/4 cup scoop of sugar