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"A recipe calls for 2 eggs every 5 cups of flour. A local chef will use 35 cups of flour, how many eggs must he have?"

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2.5cups=1egg

35cups=?
     
  35/2.5 = 14eggs

The local chef must have 14 eggs.

What are proportions?

Two ratios are said to be in proportion when the simplified forms of the ratios are equal to each other. This can be shown below:

2:4 :: 1:2

These are proportional.

We can find the number of eggs as shown below:

It is given that the recipe needs 2 eggs for every 5 cups of flour. This means that the ratio of eggs to flour is:

2:5

It is given that a local chef uses 35 cups of flour. We have to find the number of eggs that he must have.

Let the number of eggs be x.

The proportion can be written as:

2:5 :: x:35

2/5 = x/35

x = 2*35/5

x = 14

We have found how many eggs he must have. The number of eggs that the local chef must have is 14 eggs.

Therefore, we have found that the local chef must have 14 eggs.

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