If recipe takes 1-1/4 cups of sugar to 2 cups of milk but if you only have 1 cup of sugar then how much milk do you use?
1 cup is 4/5 of 1-1/4 cups.
Is it 1.6 cups of milk
hi peopel
To determine how much milk you need when you only have 1 cup of sugar instead of the required 1-1/4 cups, you can set up a proportion based on the given recipe:
Sugar/milk = 1-1/4 cups/2 cups
First, let's convert the fraction 1-1/4 to a decimal. To do that, add the whole number (1) to the decimal fraction (1/4):
1 + 1/4 = 4/4 + 1/4 = 5/4 = 1.25
Now, we have:
Sugar/milk = 1.25/2
To find out how much milk is needed, we can cross multiply and then solve for milk:
Sugar * 2 = milk * 1.25
2 = 1.25 * milk
Divide both sides of the equation by 1.25 to isolate milk:
milk = 2 / 1.25
Calculating this expression:
milk = 1.6
Therefore, if you only have 1 cup of sugar, you would need approximately 1.6 cups of milk to maintain the ratio according to the recipe.