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

113 cups

Explanation:

This is a ratio question. If we are comparing the ratios, we could say 2436=x2 where x = the amount of sugar to make 24 cookies.
We can multiply both sides by 2 to cancel the 2 on the right, making 24(2)36=x.
Simplify this and we get 4836 and eventually 43 or 113.