The recipe for a sheet cake calls for 7 cups of flour and 3 cups of sugar. Suppose you want to make as much cake batter as you can using all of the flour you

Question

have, which is 29 cups. How many cups of sugar would you need? Round to the nearest tenth of a cup.

 

a. 8.3 cups

b. 12.4 cups

c. 67.7 cups

d. 20.7 cups

Answer 1

29/7 = 4.143 batches

 

4.143 x 3 = 12.4 cups sugar