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Bonnie is baking cookies and making icing. She notices that 2 ounces of food coloring creates 9 cups of red icing. If 14 cups of red icing are needed to finish decorating cookies, how many ounces of food coloring are needed? Round to the nearest tenth of an ounce.

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User Sooth
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Answer:

3.1

Explanation:

Write a proportion.

2 / 9 = x / 14

Cross multiply.

9x = 28

Divide.

x ≈ 3.1

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