Question

Jonah has a recipe that uses 112 cups of brown sugar and 213 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 this recipe.

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Exactly how many cups of brown sugar will Jonah use if he uses all 7 cups of flour?

Answer 1

3,681 cups of brown sugar

Explanation:

Inittialy the fraction is 213/112 and we can make an equation to find "x" that means cups of brown sugar.

112/x=213/7

In one side we have the parts for sugar, in the other side the parts of flour

112 sugar=213 flour

x sugar=7 flour

We rearrange the equation, one side for number one side for letter

X=(112x7)/213

The value is 3,681 and it is cups of brown sugar