Kendra is making bread but the recipe she using makes 4 loaves. She only wants to make one loaf. The changed recipe calls for 2 1/2 cups of flour and sugar combined. If the original recipe calls for 2 cups of sugar find the amount of flour (in cups) in the original recipe

Answer 1

If Kendra wants to make one loaf instead of four loaves, she needs to divide the ingredients by 4.
The changed recipe calls for 2 1/2 cups of flour and sugar combined, so one loaf requires 2 1/2 / 4 = <<2.5/4=0.625>>0.625 cups of flour and sugar combined.
The original recipe calls for 2 cups of sugar, so the amount of flour in the original recipe is 0.625 - 2 = -1.375 cups.
Since it doesn't make sense for the original recipe to have negative flour, it means there is an error in the question.