Question

For a given recipe, 6 cups of flour are mixed with 24 cups of sugar. How many cups of flour should be used if 80 cups of sugar are used?

Answer 1

You need 20 cups of flour.

Explanation:

Divide both numbers (6, 24) by 6 so that it is 1c flour and 4c sugar divide 80c sugar by 4c sugar which is 20 so 20 is the cups of flour that you need for 80c of sugar (sorry if this is confusing)

Answer 2

Answer: 20 cups of flour should be used if 80 cups of sugar are used.

Explanation:

In the recipe, for every 6 cups of flour, there are 24 cups of sugar. Thus, the ratio of flour to sugar is 6:24, which could be simplified to 1:4.

80 cups of sugar will be used in the given scenario. 80 cups is 20 times more than the number of cups in the ratio. Thus, if you multiply each side of the ratio by 20, you would get the number of each ingredient in a certain proportion.

1:4

1 x 20:4 x 20

20:80

20 cups of flour should be used if 80 cups of sugar are used.