Question

Kendra is making bread. But the recipe she’s using make 4 loafs of bread, she only want to make one. The changed recipe calls for 2 1/2 of flour and sugar combined. If the original recipe calls for 2 cups of sugar find the amount of flour in each cup of the original recipe

Answer 1

To find the amount of flour in each cup of the original recipe, we need to find the total amount of flour and sugar combined in the original recipe and then divide it by the number of cups of sugar.

If the changed recipe calls for 2 1/2 cups of flour and sugar combined, we can convert this to an improper fraction: 2 1/2 = 5/2

Since the original recipe makes 4 loaves of bread, the amount of flour and sugar combined in the original recipe would be 5/2 * 4 = 20/2 = 10 cups

If the original recipe calls for 2 cups of sugar, we can find the amount of flour in each cup of the original recipe by dividing the total amount of flour and sugar combined (10 cups) by the number of cups of sugar (2 cups).

10 cups / 2 cups = 5 cups

Therefore, there are 5 cups of flour in each cup of the original recipe.