a recipe that makes 16 cookies call for 1/4 cup of sugar and 2/3 cup of flour. Janelle wants to proportionally increase these almost to get a new recipe using one cup of sugar. using the new recipe how much flour should she use?

Answer 1

multiply everything by 4

4 * 2/3 = 8/3 = 2 2/3

Answer 2

A recipe that makes 8 cookies calls for 2/5 cup of sugar and 1/3 cup of flour. Kinsley wants to proportionally increase these amounts to get one cup of sugar. Using the new recipe, how much flour should she use? Write your solution as a fraction