A cookie recipe called for 2 and 2/3 cups of sugar for every to into fourths cups of flour if you made a batch of cookies using 3 cups of flour how many cups of sugar would you need

Question

2 and 2/3 sugar = 2 and 2/4 flour

______ sugar= 3 cups flour

Answer 1

2 and 2/3 in proportion to 2 and 2/4 (1/2)

multiply by 3 and get 3 and 1/5

approximately 3 cups

Answer 2

Divide 2 and 2/3 by 2 and 1/2 to get 16/15 as the correct ratio .

Multiply that ratio by 3 and get 3 and 1/5 cups of sugar or just a little more that 3 cups of sugar needed

Answer 3

2 and 2/3 in proportion to 4

equals

???? in proportion to 3

cross multiplies: (2 and 2/3) * 3 = 4 * ?????

8/3 * 3 = 4 * ????

8 = 4 * ?????

2= ?????

2 cups of sugar