Question

A recipe called for the ratio of sugar to flour to be 5:1 if you used 35 ounce of sugar, how many ounces of flour would you need to use
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Answer 1

You could set up a proportion to solve this problem.

5:1 can be written as 5/1

5/1 = 35/x

Cross multiply.

You get 5x = 35

Divide both sides by five.

x=7, so you need 7 ounces of flour

Answer 2

5 is 5 times more than 1
So what is 35, 5 times more than?
35/5=7
You need to use 7oz of sugar