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Kritika is following this recipe for bread. She realises her sister used most of sugar syrup for her breakfast. Kritika has only 16 cup of syrup, so she decides to make a small size of bread.

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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.

Sum
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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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Chapter 10: Direct and Inverse Proportions - Exercise [Page 329]

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NCERT Exemplar Mathematics [English] Class 8
Chapter 10 Direct and Inverse Proportions
Exercise | Q 103. | Page 329

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