When mrs. stewart makes pie dough, she uses 2/3 cup of shortening for every 2 1/2 cups of flour which proportion could be used to find the amount of flour, x mrs. stewart needs when she uses 5 cups of shortening

The amount of flour Mrs.Stewart needs for 5 cups of shortening cups.

Step-by-step explanation:

Mrs.Stewart pie dough needs   cups of shortening for cups of flour.

Now we assume that the shortening needed for cups of flour is cups.

Accordingly we can arrange the ratios.

So for one cup of shortening how many cups of flour is needed we have to use the unitary method:

Plugging the value of as it is number of cups of shortening Mrs.Stewart have used.

And multiplying both sides with .

Number of cups of flour needed when cups of shortenings are used .

So,

The amount of floor Mrs.Stewart needed for cups of shortening cups of floor.

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