Question

17. When preparing a sweet, sugar and flour are mixed in the ratio 2:3 and flour and butter are mixed in the ratio 3:1. If 200 g of sugar is used, find the mass of butter used to make the sweet.​

Answer 1

Step 1: Calculate the total amount of flour used.

200 g of sugar is used, so the amount of flour used is 300 g (because it follows the ratio 2:3).

Step 2: Calculate the amount of butter used.

Since flour and butter are mixed in the ratio 3:1, for every 3 units of flour, 1 unit of butter is used. So for 300 g of flour, 100 g of butter should be used.

Therefore, the mass of butter used to make the sweet is 100 g.