Question

Ramil and Carly decided to make more baked goods for the bake sale. They used 1/7 lb less flour to make bread than to make cookies. She used 1/5 lb more flour to make cookies than to make brownies. If she used 1/2 lb of flour to make the bread, how much flour did she use to make the brownies? Show your work.

Answer 1

Lila uses lb of flour to make the bread.
Since she uses lb less to make bread than cookies then flour used to make the cookies = -
=
= lb
She used lb more flour to make cookies than brownies then flour used to make brownies = -
= = lb
Therefore, flour used to make brownies in lb.