Question

Allen is making banana bread. The ratio of the number of cups the mash bananas to the number of cups of flour for his recipe is 6:3

A. Howling uses 3 cups of mashed bananas to make one loaf. How many cups of flour will he use? Show or explain how you found your answer

B. Eric uses Allen's recipe to make banana bread. Eric uses 9 cups of flour and total. How many loaves does Eric make?

Answer 1

A. Since Allen always uses half as many cups of flour as cups of banana, Howling will use 1.5 cups of flour
B. Since it takes 3 cups of flour to make 1 loaf of banana bread and Eric is using 9 cups, he will make 9/3 = 3 loaves of banana bread