A cookie recipe requires 2.5 cups of sugar for every 10 cups of flour. If a baker makes enough cookies to use 16 cups of sugar, how many cups of flour would be used?

Question

 A cookie recipe requires 2.5 cups of sugar for every 10 cups of flour. If a baker makes enough cookies to use 16 cups of sugar, how many cups of flour would be used? *

Answer 1

it's a 4 to 1 ratio of flour to sugar

for 16 cups sugar, 4x16 = 64 cups of flour