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

f/16 = 10/2.5 = 4

f = 4(16) = 64 cups of flour for 16 cups of sugar