Troy is baking a cake for his mother's birthday the recipe calls for 3 1/4 cups of flour since so many people are coming to the party Troy wants to make a cake 5 times larger than the recipe calls for how many cups of flour should be used in the cake

If you would like to know how many cups of flour should be used in the cake, you can calculate this using the following steps:

the recipe: 3 1/4 cups of flour

5 times larger cake: 5 * 3 1/4 = 5 * 13/4 = 65/4 = 16 1/4 cups of flour

Result: Troy should use 16 1/4 cups of flour in the cake.

Break it up. multiply 3 by 5 to get 15. then multiply 1/4 by 5 to get 1 1/4. add 15 and 1 1/4 to get 16 1/4.