A recipe calls for 1 cup of cake mix and 4 eggs. This recipe serves 6 people. How many eggs are needed to make enough to serve 15 people?
1 Answer
Dec 17, 2017
10eggs (if you can make 'half' a cake, otherwise 12)
Explanation:
We need to know how many cake mixes are needed. If we know one mix is for 6 people then;
Therefore, we need 2.5 times the eggs to make enough cake for 6 people (4 eggs).
If the cakes needed to be whole, however, then we need to round up the 2.5 to 3, and thus;