An entrepreneur is starting up a new bakery featuring a special pastry from an old family recipe. The basic dough recipe requires 5cups of flour, which is 0.75kg, plus another 0.75kg consisting of all the other ingredients, sugar, butter, milk, yeast, fruits, nuts and spices, to make the dough for 15 medium pastries. She runs some tests to scale up her recipe. How much dough, in kg, does the basic recipe make, and how much is needed for each pastry?

An entrepreneur is starting up a new bakery featuring a special pastry from an old family recipe. The basic dough recipe requires 5cups of flour, which is 0.75kg, plus another 0.75kg consisting of all the other ingredients, sugar, butter, milk, yeast, fruits, nuts and spices, to make the dough for 15 medium pastries. She runs some tests to scale up her recipe. How much dough, in kg, does the basic recipe make, and how much is needed for each pastry?

Principles of Accounting Volume 2

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Chapter10: Short-term Decision Making

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