Question

A recipe uses 5 cups of flour to 1 1/10 cups of milk. If you have 2 cups of flour, how much milk should you use? The amount of milk in cups for 2 cups of flour is?

Answer 1

The recipe gives 5 cups of flour for 11/10 cups of milk.

That means that for each cup of flour, we can calculate the cups of milk to be:

$\Rightarrow\frac{11}{10}\div5=\frac{11}{50}\text{ cups of milk}$

Therefore, for 2 cups of flour, we will use:

$\begin{gathered} \Rightarrow\frac{11}{50}\times2 \\ =\frac{11}{25} \end{gathered}$

Hence, the amount of milk in cups for 2 cups of flour is 11/25 cups.