Question

a pastry recipe calls for 3 cups of flour to make 8 serving .how many cups of flour are needed to make 6 serving

Answer 1

If you would like to know how many cups of flour are needed to make 6 servings, you can calculate this using the following steps:

3 cups of flour ... 8 servings
x cups of flour = ? ... 6 servings

3 * 6 = 8 * x
18 = 8 * x      /8
x = 18/8
x = 9/4
x = 2 1/4 cups of flour

The correct result would be 2 1/4 cups of flour.