Yesemin is using a sugar cookie recipe with a flour to sugar ratio of 11: 6. To make one batch of cookies, 2.75 cups of flour are needed. If yasemin would like to triple the recipe, which one of the following best approximates how much sugar she will need?

Answer :

4.5 cups of sugar are needed when the recipe is tripled. Option B is correct.

What is the difference between a ratio and a proportion?

A ratio is an ordered pair of integers a and b expressed as a/b, with b never equaling 0. A percentage is a mathematical expression in which two ratios are specified to be equal.

Given data;

Yasemin is using a sugar cookie recipe with flour to sugar ratio of 11: 6.

For 11 units of flour 6 units of sugar are needed as;

11 cups of flour ⇒ 6 cups of sugar

1 cups flour ⇒ 6 /11 cups of sugar

1 cups flour ⇒ 0.545 cups of sugar

To make one batch of cookies, 2.75 cups of flour are needed.

If  we triple the recipe then cups of flour are needed ;

⇒ 2.75 × 3

⇒ 8.75 cups

The cups of sugar needed;

⇒ 8.75 cups of flour  = 8.75 × 0.545 cups of sugar

⇒8.75 cups of flour  = 4.5 cups of sugar

4.5 cups of sugar are needed when the recipe is tripled.

Hence option B is correct.

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