Question

The recipe for making 20 pancakes calls for 3/2 cups of milk. You need to make 120 pancakes for your pancake breakfast fundraiser. How many cups of milk will you need

Answer 1

The answer to your question is 9 cups of milk

Explanation:

Data

20 pancakes/3/2 cups of milk

120 pancakes/? cups of milk

Process

Use proportions to solve this problem

20 pancakes ----------- 3/2 cups of milk

120 pancakes ---------- x cups of milk

x = (120 x 3/2) / 20

Simplification

x = (360/2) / 20

x = 180 / 20

Result

x = 9 cups of milk