Question

A pie crust recipe calls for two cups of butter for each three cups of flour. Elliette is making enough crusts to use up eight cups of flour. How many cups of butter will she need? (1) 6 cups(2)7 1/4 cups(3)4 1/2 cups(4)5 1/3 cups

Answer 1

2 cups of butter -------------------- 3 cups of flour

x ------------------- 8 cups of flour

x = (8 x 2) / 3

x = 16/3

x = 5 1/3 cups

The answer is number 4. the right choice