If you have a recipe for 36 cookies and you want to change the recipe and only make 24 cookies, how much sugar would I need?
amout of sugar in 36 cookie recipe x (24/36)=??
To find out how much sugar you would need for a recipe that originally makes 36 cookies but you only want to make 24 cookies, you can use a proportion.
First, let's assume that the amount of sugar needed for the original 36-cookie recipe is x.
We can set up the proportion:
x (amount of sugar for 36 cookies) / 36 (number of cookies in the original recipe) = y (amount of sugar for 24 cookies) / 24 (number of cookies you want to make)
Now, we can solve for y, the amount of sugar needed for 24 cookies:
x / 36 = y / 24
To solve this equation, we can cross-multiply:
24x = 36y
Now, we can rearrange the equation to solve for y:
y = (24/36) * x
So, to find out the amount of sugar needed for 24 cookies, you would multiply the amount of sugar needed for 36 cookies by (24/36).