Question

To bake some cakes, a baker used 40g of strawberries for every220g of flour. If the total amount of strawberries and flour that the baker used was 1040g, what was the amount of flour the baker used?

Answer 1

880g of flour

Explanation:

What is a ratio?

A ratio has two or more numbers that symbolize relation to each other. Ratios are used to compare numbers, and you can compare them using division.

The ratio the baker uses (strawberries: flour) is:

• 40g: 220g

Adding the two of these together gives us:

• 40g + 220 = 260g

This means that for 1 batch of cakes, 260g of flour and strawberries is needed in total.

Now that we know that, we can take 1040g and divide that by 260g.

1040g ÷ 260g = 4

This means that the baker made 4 batches of cakes using 1040g total.

Taking the amount of flour and multiplying that by 4 to get the amount of flour used:

220g × 4 = 880g

Therefore the baker uses 880g of flour for every 1040g total.