2 cups of sugar and 5 cups of flour. Harry wants to bake a small cake so he only uses 1 cup of sugar. Based on the recipe how many cups of flour should he use?
If you had done it in the kitchen instead of in math, you would not have had to ask.
To find out how many cups of flour Harry should use, we can use a ratio based on the given recipe.
The ratio of sugar to flour in the recipe is 2:5.
Given that Harry reduces the amount of sugar to 1 cup, we can set up a proportion to find the corresponding amount of flour:
2 cups of sugar / 5 cups of flour = 1 cup of sugar / x cups of flour
To solve for x, we can cross-multiply:
(2 cups of sugar)(x cups of flour) = (1 cup of sugar)(5 cups of flour)
2x = 5
Dividing both sides by 2:
x = 5/2
Therefore, Harry should use 2.5 cups of flour for his small cake.
used half the sugar so use half the flour
5/2 = 2.5