A recipe for salt dough is one part flour and three parts salt. Express the amount of salt in recipe as a fraction. If you double the recipe to make the dough for crafts,using two cups of flour,how much salt will you need?
salt is 3/4 of the recipe.
2 cups flour+six cups salt
To express the amount of salt in the salt dough recipe as a fraction, we need to calculate the ratio of salt to the total mixture.
The ratio of salt to the mixture is 3 parts salt to 1 part flour. This means for every 3 parts of salt, there is 1 part of flour.
Since we have the recipe as one part flour, we can also say we have three parts salt.
To find the fraction, we add the parts of salt and express it as a fraction over the total parts. In this case, the numerator (top number) of the fraction would be three (3) and the denominator (bottom number) would be four (4), which represents the total parts of the mixture (3 parts salt + 1 part flour).
Therefore, the amount of salt in the recipe, expressed as a fraction, is 3/4.
Now, if you double the recipe and use two cups of flour, we need to calculate how much salt will be required. Since the ratio remains the same, we can also double the amount of salt needed.
If the original recipe called for 3/4 cups of salt, doubling it would mean you will need 2 * 3/4 = 6/4 = 1 1/2 cups of salt for the doubled recipe.