Question

My cookbook says that a salad sauce should be made of 1/3 lemon juice and 2/3 oil.

I put in 50 ml oil but my hand slipped when adding the lemon juice and the total volume is now 90 ml.
How much oil must I add to have the correct proportions?

A 10 ml B 30 ml C 40 ml D 80 ml

Answer 1

We know that you put (90-50), or 40 ml of lemon juice. If 40 ml of lemon juice is 1/3 of the total sauce, then 80 ml of it should be oil.

So you should add 30 ml more oil to make it proportional.

Let me know if this helps!