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A recipe for cookies uses butter and sugar in ratio $2 : 3$ . If we are using $8$ cups of butter, how many cups of sugar should we use?

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$I^{s t}$ method $\Rightarrow$ butter : sugar $\Rightarrow$ 2 : 3
$I I^{n d}$ method $\Rightarrow$ butter : sugar $\Rightarrow$ 2x : 3x
$\begin{matrix} 2 x = 8 x = 4 \end{matrix}$
Then sugar $= 3 x$
$= 3 \times 4 = 12$

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