Question 3 — IGCSE 0580 March 2023 Paper 32
Cambridge IGCSE Mathematics 0580, Core tier, calculator. Topic: Numbers · The four rules. Worth 11 marks.
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3 (a) A recipe for making 20 biscuits uses 150 g flour, 125 g butter and 50 g sugar.
(i) Write the ratio flour : butter : sugar in its simplest form.
flour : butter : sugar = ...................... : ...................... : ...................... [2]
(ii) Work out the amount of flour, butter and sugar needed to make 50 biscuits.
flour ............................................. g
butter ............................................. g
sugar ............................................. g [3]
(b) (i) A recipe for making one loaf of bread uses 600 g of flour.
A sack of flour contains 16 kg of flour.
Complete the statements.
One sack of flour makes a maximum of ............................ loaves of bread.
The amount of flour left over is ............................ g.
[4]
(ii) The amount of flour in a sack decreases from 16 kg to 15 kg.
Work out the percentage decrease of flour in the sack.
............................................. % [2]
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