A recipe uses five cups of flour for eveey two cups of sugar. If alrhea want to make a recipe using eight cups of flour, how many cups of sugar must she use
flour / sugar = 5/2
so
5/2 = 8/x
5 x = 16
x = 16/5 = 3 1/5
so
5/2 = 8/x
5 x = 16
x = 16/5 = 3 1/5