Question

Clifford is making a really big white cake for his sisters birthday. The recipe calls for 1.5 times as much flour as sugar. It also calls for 1/2 as much butter as sugar. All the butter, flour, and sugar together total7.5 cups. How much butter, sugar and flour does Clifford need?

Answer 1

Answer:

The amount of butter, sugar and flour does Clifford need is 2.5 cups flour, 3.75 cups sugar and 1.25 butter

Explanation:

Consider the number of cup of flour used to be x

According to question,

Recipe calls for 1.5 times as much flour as sugar

Sugar =$1.5 \times Flour$

Sugar = 1.5x

Butter = ½ x = 0.5x

According to question,  

Flour + Sugar + Butter = 7.5

x + 1.5x + 0.5x = 7.5

3x = 7.5

x = 2.5

Sugar = 1.5x = 1.5(2.5) = 3.75

Butter = 0.5(2.5) = 1.25

Clifford need is 2.5 cups flour, 3.75 cups sugar and 1.25 cups butter