A bakery used 4 cups of flour to make a full size cake. If they wanted to make a cake that was 0.5 the size, how many cups of water would they need.
Yeah
How much water is required to make a full size cake?
2.0
Why didn't you state that in the original problem?
21
To find out how many cups of water the bakery would need to make a cake that is 0.5 the size of a full-size cake, we can use a proportion.
A proportion is an equation that states that two ratios are equal. In this case, we can set up a proportion using the amount of flour and the amount of water.
Let's assume that the amount of water needed is "x" cups.
The proportion can be set up as follows:
4 cups of flour / x cups of water = 1 full-size cake / 0.5 the size of a full-size cake
To solve this proportion, we can cross-multiply and then solve for "x":
4 * 0.5 = x
2 = x
Therefore, to make a cake that is 0.5 the size of a full-size cake, the bakery would need 2 cups of water.