Measure. & Fractions
A cookie recipe calls for 3/4 cup of butter.
You want to make 2 1/2 batches.
How much butter is needed altogether?
1 7/8 cups
A cookie recipe uses flour and sugar in the ratio 3:2.
If a baker uses 15 cups of flour, how many cups of sugar are needed?
10 cups
A recipe calls for 2.5 cups of milk. Convert this amount to millilitres.
625 mL
A dough has 500 g of flour and 300 g of water.
What is the baker’s percentage of water?
60%
A frosting recipe uses sugar and butter in the ratio 4:3.
If there are 12 cups of butter, how many cups of sugar are needed?
16 cups
A baker has 5 1/4 cups of flour.
Each loaf of banana bread requires 7/8 cups of flour.
How many full loaves can the baker make?
6 loaves
A brownie recipe calls for chocolate chips and nuts in the ratio 5:3.
If there are 24 cups of nuts, how many cups of chocolate chips are needed?
40 cups
A baker uses 3 tablespoons of vanilla extract.
Convert this to millilitres.
45 mL
A dough uses 800 g of flour and 640 g of water.
What is the hydration level (water as a baker’s percentage)?
80%
A recipe needs 1.8 litres of milk.
How many millilitres is this?
1800 mL
A recipe is designed for 24 cupcakes and uses 1 1/2 cups of sugar.
A baker only wants to make 15 cupcakes.
How much sugar should be used?
15/16 cup
A cake recipe uses flour and sugar in the ratio 5:3.
A baker uses 20 cups of flour but accidentally adds 15 cups of sugar.
How many extra cups of sugar were added?
3 cups
A cake needs 1.2 litres of batter. Convert this to cups
4.8 cups
A bread recipe has:
If the baker uses 1000 g of flour, how many grams of salt are needed?
20g
A bakery increases the price of a cake from $20 to $25.
What is the percent increase?
25%
A baker mixes 2/3 cup of dark chocolate chips, 5/8 cup of white chocolate chips, and 3/4 cup of nuts into cookie dough.
The recipe says the total amount of mix-ins should be no more than 1 3/4 cups.
By how much did the baker exceed the limit?
7/24 cup
A bread recipe uses flour and water in the ratio 7:4.
If the baker adds 8 cups of water, how much flour is needed to keep the ratio the same?
14 cups
A baker has 2.4 kilograms of flour.
They want to divide it equally into 6 batches of dough, but each batch must be measured in grams.
How many grams of flour are in each batch?
400 grams
A dough uses 1200 g of flour.
The baker uses:
What is the total weight of the dough?
2100 g
A baker sells muffins for $2 each.
After selling some muffins, they made $54.
How many muffins were sold?
27 muffins
A pastry chef accidentally spills 20% of a bowl containing 3 3/4 cups of custard.
Then the chef uses 2/3 of what remains to fill pastries.
How much custard is left after filling the pastries?
1 cup
A baker mixes sugar and butter in the ratio 9:5.
If the total mixture is 56 cups, how many cups are butter?
20 cups
A bakery scales a recipe that uses 0.6 kg of sugar per cake. If they make 8 cakes, what is the total sugar in grams.
4800 grams
A pizza dough recipe has:
A baker wants to make 3 kg of dough total.
How many grams of flour are needed?
1754.39 g
A recipe makes 12 cookies using 3 cups of flour.
A baker has 10 cups of flour and wants to use it all proportionally.
How many cookies can they make?
40 cookies