A recipe for cupcakes calls for 3⁄4 of a cup of sugar and 2 cups of flour. If you want to make a bigger batch, using 3 cups of flour, how much sugar will you need? Write your answer as a fraction of a cup.
since the sugar:flour ratio is constant,
(3/4):2 = x:3
or,
3/4 * 3 = 2x
x = 9/8
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While making cupcakes for class you realize the recipe needs to be 3 1/4
times bigger. The recipe uses 2/3
cups of flour. So how much do you need total?
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I apologize for the mistake in my previous answer.
To make the recipe 3 times bigger, we need to multiply all the ingredients by 3.
So, for sugar, we have:
3/4 cup * 3 = 9/4 cups
Therefore, we need 9/4 cups of sugar for the bigger batch of cupcakes.
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I apologize for the continued errors in my responses. I will try to provide a correct solution.
If the original recipe uses 2 cups of flour and 3/4 cup of sugar, and we want to make a bigger batch using 3 cups of flour, we can use a proportion:
sugar/flour = 3/4 : 2
We can find the amount of sugar needed for 3 cups of flour by solving for sugar:
sugar/3 = (3/4)/2
sugar/3 = 3/8
sugar = (3/8) * 3
sugar = 9/8
Therefore, we need 9/8 cup of sugar for the bigger batch of cupcakes.
To find out how much sugar you will need when using 3 cups of flour instead of 2 cups, we can set up a proportion using the ratio of sugar to flour from the original recipe.
The original recipe calls for 3/4 cup of sugar for 2 cups of flour. We can write this ratio as:
(3/4) cup of sugar : 2 cups of flour
We want to find out how much sugar is needed for 3 cups of flour. Let's set up the proportion:
(3/4) cup of sugar / 2 cups of flour = x cup of sugar / 3 cups of flour
To solve this proportion, we cross-multiply:
(3/4) cup of sugar * 3 cups of flour = 2 cups of flour * x cup of sugar
9/4 cups of sugar = 2x
Now, we can solve for x by dividing both sides of the equation by 2:
(9/4 cups of sugar) / 2 = (2x) / 2
9/8 cups of sugar = x
Therefore, when using 3 cups of flour, you will need 9/8 cups of sugar.
To make the recipe 3 1/4 times bigger, we need to multiply all the ingredients by 3 1/4.
So, for flour, we have:
2/3 cup * 3 1/4 = 2/3 cup * 13/4 = 26/12 cup = 13/6 cup
Therefore, we need 13/6 cups of flour for the bigger batch of cupcakes.