A recipe requires 2 1/2 (mixed number) cups of flour 2 3/4 (mixed number) cups of sugar and 1 1/3 (mixed number) cups of milk to make one cake. Victor has 15 cups if flour, 16 cups of sugar and 8 cups of milk. What is the greatest number of cakes tom can make using this recipe?
Options.
A) 5  B) 6  C) 7  D) 8  E) 9
Less work up front: Go through each item and see what the greatest number of cakes you can make with each. The lowest of these will be the right answer.   Flour: 15 cups, we need 2.5 cups each. Just keep going up the line to see how many cakes we can make: That means I can make 2 cakes with 5 cups, so 6 cakes overall with 15 cups. I've already got the answer narrowed to either A or B.   Sugar: 16 cups, we need 2.75 cups each. Same principle. I can make 2 cups with 5.5 cups, so to make 6 cakes I'd need 16.5 cups. I don't have that much sugar, so we're limited to 5 cakes. No need to even do milk because we're already at 5. Sugar will be the limiting factor.   answer is 5
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A recipe requires 2 1/2 (mixed number) cups of flour 2 3/4 (mixed number) cups of sugar and 1 1/3 (mixed number) cups of milk to make one cake. Victor has 15 cups if flour, 16 cups of sugar and 8 cups of milk. What is the greatest number of cakes tom can make using this recipe?