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Question
Kritika is following this recipe for bread. She realises her sister used most of sugar syrup for her breakfast. Kritika has only `1/6` cup of syrup, so she decides to make a small size of bread. How much of each ingredient shall she use?
Bread recipe
1 cup quick cooking oats
2 cups bread flour
`1/3` cup sugar syrup
1 tablespoon cooking oil
`1 1/3` cups water
3 tablespoons yeast
1 teaspoon salt.
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Solution
After used of most of sugar syrup for her breakfast, the remaining sugar is `1/6` cup of sugar syrup. Thus, it means `1 - 1/6 = 5/6` has been used. She need `1/3` cup of sugar syrup for one piece of bread. So, new quantity of ingredient will be in proportion of `1/2`.
Now the bread recipe will be look like
`1/2` cup quick cooking oats
1 cup bread flour
`1/6` cup sugar syrup
`1/2` tablespoon cooking oil
`4/3 xx 1/2 = 2/3` cup water
`3/2` tablespoons yeast
`1/2` teaspoon salt
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