Theo wants to use a cookie recipe that makes 36 cookies but he wants to reduce the number of cookies to 24. If the recipe specifies using 2 cups of sugar, how much sugar should he use?
1 Answer
May 21, 2017
Explanation:
This is a ratio question. If we are comparing the ratios, we could say
We can multiply both sides by 2 to cancel the 2 on the right, making
Simplify this and we get