Chase is making a cake for his daughter's birthday. The normal recipe calls for 8 ounces of butter and 16 ounces of sugar. Chase then decides to make a slightly smaller cake and only use 6 ounces of butter. How many ounces of sugar will he need in his smaller cake? give your answer explain how you found it.

Notice that the ounces for sugar is the double of butter so if you have 6 of butter you’ll need 12 of sugar

1. isolate the variable, in this case, d. subtract 35.5 on both sides of the equation.2. 52 subtracted by 35.5 is 16.53. therefore your answer would be d= 16.5this is the basics of pre algebra, isolating variable through adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing, if you have any other questions to ask just comment!