it takes 3/8 cup of sugar to make a loaf of bread. how much sugar do i need to make nine loaves of bread
Mathematics · Middle School · Tue Nov 03 2020
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We know from the question that in order to make 1 loaf of bread we need 3/8 cups of sugar. In order to find out how much sugar is needed to make 9 loaves we can create a simple ratio and we can cross multiply. This amount of sugar will call it X.
If 1 loaf of bread needs 3/8cup of sugar.
Then 9 loaves of bread need X cups of sugar.
If we cross multiply we will have, 1 loaf times x cups of sugar equal to 9 loaves times 3/8cup of sugar. Written mathematically:
X=9*3/8
x=27/8cup of sugar
If we separate 27/8 we will have: 8/8+8/8+8/8+3/8
So we have 3 whole cups and 3/8 of cup on top of them. So needs 3cups and 3/8of a cup.