kyle uses 3 cups of sugar for every 2 teaspoons of baking soda to make a batch of cookies which proportion could he solved to find x, the number of teaspoons of baking soda needed for 9 cups of sugar.

1 answer

3/2 = x/9

Cross multiplying:

2x = 27

Divide by 2:

x = 13.5

Therefore, Kyle would need 13.5 teaspoons of baking soda for 9 cups of sugar.