Your baking assistant needs help with converting the fondant recipe. The recipe calls for 2 pounds of powdered sugar. Your assistant converts 2 pounds of powdered sugar to 1/8 ounces of powdered sugar. Explain what your assistant did wrong.

I cannot figure out what the assistant did wrong for the life of me.

Question

Your baking assistant needs help with converting the fondant recipe. The recipe calls for 2 pounds of powdered sugar. Your assistant converts 2 pounds of powdered sugar to 1/8 ounces of powdered sugar. Explain what your assistant did wrong. 

 I cannot figure out what the assistant did wrong for the life of me.

benlindquist · Answer

those are different pounds and ounces

anonymous · Answer

Please explain, I am still a wee bit confused.

benlindquist · Answer

ok

benlindquist · Answer

convert pounds into ounces

anonymous · Answer

2 pounds is 32 ounces.

anonymous · Answer

No one?

anonymous · Answer

I know how to solve it, I just do not understand how the assistant failed!

anonymous · Answer

Damnit, if it weren't for your idiocy I wouldn't be stumped. You are fired, Mr. Assistant.

anonymous · Answer

I just figured it out. For anyone viewing this post in the future; it's that the assistant divided by 16, rather than multiplying by 16. What a scrub.