Question

A candy recipe calls for 4 parts milk, 5 parts cocoa, 3 parts syrup, 1 parts sugar and 1 part butter.
If you use 6 ounce of milk, how many ounces of candy mixture can you make?

Answer 1

Let's start by figuring out how many parts are in the mixture, and the mass of each part.

We can determine the total number of parts in the mixture by simply adding the number of parts of each ingredient together:

Total = 5 + 4 + 4 + 2 + 1 = 16 parts.

We know that 5 parts milk is equal to 8oz of milk, so 5 parts = 8Oz.

To find the mass of 1 part, we simply divide the mass of milk by the number of parts, in this case, the mass of a part is 8 ÷ 5 = 1.6oz.

Now, we simply multiply the mass of 1 part by the total number of parts, to get:

Total mass = 1.6 × 16 = 25.6oz