Question

A certain recipe requires 4 1/5 cups of flour and 2 3/7 cups of sugar. If 4/9 of the recipe is to be made how much sugar is needed? If the above ingredients are required for one batch find the amount of flour needed for a triple batch?

Answer 1

To find the amount of sugar needed for 4/9 of a batch, just multiply the standard batch (2 3/7 cups) by 4/9, for a result of 1 5/63 cups of sugar.

To find the amount of flour needed for a triple batch, multiply the base amount of flour, or 4 1/5, by three, to get 12 3/5 cups of flour.