Here is the question:

Question

Here is the question:

"To make a pancake mix, add 1/2 cup of sugar, 3 cups of flour, 1 cup of powdered milk, 1 teaspoon baking powder and 1/2 teaspoon salt. Assuming the volume of the baking powder and salt are negligible, how much flour will be needed to make 50 cups of the dry mix?"

We are doing proportions, which is:

a c
__ = __
b d

***The units of A&C have to be the same and B&D also.

I got this far in the problem while doing it::::

x (cups of flour) ???
________________ = _________
50 cups of flour 3 cups of flour

for the top ?? do I put all the dry ingredients listed? Because I don't think I do, because if I did so, then the outcome would be too large, wouldn't it?

Answer 1

And then it asks:

"List the ingredients to a favorite recipe. Triple the recipe."

then

"Now figure 1/3 the recipe. Try using fraction multiplication, then do the problem again using proportion method."

I'm really stupid.
So to triple the recipe that I write, I would times it by 3, correct?

I'm sorry.

Answer 2

The recipe I chose was this::

FRUIT SALAD

1 pint of strawberries
1 pound of grapes
3 bananas
1 (8 oz) strawberry yogurt.

But when it tells me to do 1/3 of the recipe I keep getting the tripled amount.
Am I doing something wrong?

Answer 3

sorry I didn't mean to double post a response

Answer 4

To find the amount of flour needed to make 50 cups of the dry mix, you can set up a proportion based on the given recipe.

Let's set up the proportion using the "a, b, c, d" format you mentioned:

x (cups of flour) 3 cups of flour
________________ = _________
50 cups of flour 1 batch of mix

In this case, "x" represents the unknown amount of flour needed to make 50 cups of the dry mix.

Now, let's solve the proportion using cross-multiplication:

50 cups of flour * 3 cups of flour = x * 1 batch of mix

150 cups of flour = x

Therefore, to make 50 cups of the dry mix, you will need 150 cups of flour.

Now you might wonder if you need to include the other dry ingredients such as sugar, powdered milk, baking powder, and salt in the proportion. The answer is no because the question assumes the volume of baking powder and salt is negligible, meaning their amounts are so small that they can be disregarded for the purpose of this calculation.

So, the only ingredient you need to consider when calculating the amount of flour is the flour itself.