Given:
The ratio of sugar and eggs for 8 people is
[tex]1:3[/tex]
Required:
We need to find the amount of sugar and the number of eggs needed to bake a cake that will feed 16 people.
Explanation:
The number of a cub of sugar needed for 8 people is 1.
The number of eggs needed for 8 people is 3.
[tex]\text{ We know that }16=2\times8.[/tex]Multiply 1 by 2, and we get 2
The number of cubs of sugar for 16 people is 2.
Multiply 3 by 2, we get 6.
The number of eggs for 16 people is 16.
Final answer:
2 cups of sugar and 16 eggs are needed to bake a cake that will feed 16 people.
