4MA0 Foundation January 2018 Paper 2 Q13

EdexcelFoundationOld spec4 marksRatio & Basic Proportion

13 Here is a list of ingredients needed to make one lemon cake.

Lemon cake

Ingredients
125 g butter
175 g sugar
175 g flour
60 ml milk
2 eggs
\(1\dfrac{1}{2}\) lemons
100 g icing sugar

(a) Write down the ratio of the weight of butter to the weight of flour.
Give your ratio in its simplest form. (2)

Alison wants to make some of these lemon cakes to sell at a school fair.
She only has 750 g of butter and 8 lemons.
She has plenty of all the other ingredients.

(b) Work out the greatest number of these lemon cakes Alison can make. (2)