a recipe for 2 1/2 dozen whole-wheat muffins require 600 g of flour. How many muffins can be made with 900 g of flour?
Mathematics · Middle School · Tue Nov 03 2020
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Given
2 ½ dozen whole-wheat muffins require 600g of flour.
Find how many muffins can be made with 900 g of flour.
1 dozen = 12
2 ½ = 30
30 whole wheat muffins require 600 g of flour.
Solution:
Since we are given 900 g of flour, which is 300 g more the required grams of making 2 ½ dozen of whole-wheat muffins, we can simply divide the total amount of muffins by 2, and add the quotient again to the total amount of muffins. To simply understand this, we've proportioned the amount of muffins based on the required flour.
if 600g is needed for 30 muffins, then 300 g is needed for 15 muffins. So this means that 900g will be 30 muffins plus 15 muffins.
Total Whole-Wheat Muffins = 30 + 15
Total Whole-Wheat Muffins = 45
45 muffins can be made with 900 g of flour.