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Your mother is baking a cake for your birthday. She has two recipes with the same ingredients except for the amounts of sugar and water to be used. Recipe 1 requires 200 g of sugar dissolved in 400g of water. Recipe 2 calls for 250 g of water dissolved in 600 g of water.
Help your mother find out which recipe will yield a sweeter cake by computing the percentage of sugar for EACH recipe. Show your complete solution
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Explanation:
200 g of sugar dissolved in 400g of water
= 200/400
= 0.5 or 50%
250 g of water dissolved in 600 g of water
= 250/600
= 0.4167 or 41.67%
50% is greater than 41.67%, therefore, the recipe with 200 g of sugar dissolved in 400g of water will yield a sweeter cake.