Question

Thomas uses 4 1/2 cups of flour to make 3 loaves of banana bread. Write and solve an equation to find how many cups of flour are needed to make one loaf of banana bread.

Answer 1

The equation that best represents the relationship between the number of loaves of bread which is denoted by b and the number of cups of bananas which is denoted by c is c = 2 1/4b.

We know that we need 11 ¼ cups of bananas are needed to make 5 loaves of bread.

We need to divide 11 ¼ to 5 which the answer is 2 ¼. The 2 ¼ represents how many cups are needed to make 1 loaf of bread.