A traditional chocolate cake recipe calls for 1 pound of sugar, 1 pound of butter, 1 pound of eggs, and 1 pound of flour. What percent of a chocolate cake is flour?
To find the percentage of flour in the chocolate cake, we need to calculate the ratio of flour to the total weight of all the ingredients.
The total weight of all the ingredients is 1 pound (sugar) + 1 pound (butter) + 1 pound (eggs) + 1 pound (flour) = 4 pounds.
The weight of the flour is 1 pound.
To find the percentage, we divide the weight of the flour by the total weight of all the ingredients and multiply by 100.
(1 pound / 4 pounds) * 100 = 25%.
So, flour makes up 25% of the chocolate cake.