Question

A chocolate chip cookie recipe called for the ratio of sugar to flour to be 8:7. if you used 48 ounce of sugar, how many ounces of flour would you need to use

Answer 1

Let:

x = Amount of sugar:

y = Amount of flour

The chocolate chip cookie recipe called for the ratio of sugar to flour to be 8:7, so:

$\frac{x}{y}=\frac{8}{7}$

If you use 48oz of sugar:

$\begin{gathered} \frac{48}{y}=\frac{8}{7} \\ \text{Solving for y:} \\ y=\frac{48\cdot7}{8}=42 \end{gathered}$

Therefore, you would need to use 42oz of flour