Household Algebra

On another forum, I remarked that I frequently use high-school algebra
in my sewing.  Tonight I need it for cooking -- I forgot to buy baking
chocolate, but I have nine .88-ounce bars of 85% eating chocolate, and
need four ounces to make a cake.

I think I'm gonna need a calculator.

Or, perhaps, I could just put them all in:
  .88 x 9 x .85 = 7.92 x .85 = 6.732

Sanity check:  .85 x .88 = .748 oz/bar, three-fourths of nine is six
and three fourths.

I usually put all four ounces into half a recipe, but this year I'm
making a whole cake, so half again too much is going to be rather
feeble chocolate.

I'd better make sure I have four eggs.


I did check that I have a cup of pecans.


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