A pancake recipe calls for 1 2/3 cups of whole wheat flour to make 30 pancakes. How much flour is needed to make 10 pancakes.

Question

To make 10 pancakes, the recipe calls for how many cups of flour

Answer 1

10 pancakes is 1/3 of 30 pancakes. So you need 1/3 of 1 2/3 flour.

 

(1/3(1 2/3)            change to improper fraction

(1/3(5/3)               multiply

5/9

 

You need 5/9 cups of flour to make 10 pancakes.