Question

Cooper is measuring ingredients for his special dessert. He needs a total of 70.4 mL of milk and melted butter. The recipe calls for 30.6 mL of butter. How much milk, m, does Cooper need for his recipe?

Answer 1

choose letters to represent the unknowns, and then relate those quantities to each other through writing equations. As the problem statement suggests, let m represent the number of ml (milliliters) of milk. Choose another letter to repr. the number of ml of butter.