A cookie recipe calls for 1 cup of sugar, 4 cups of flour, and 0.5 cups of butter. Which of the following ratios is incorrect?

Answer:
Option 3: 4 cups flour: 1 cup butter
Explanation:
The recipe calls for 1 cup of sugar, 4 cups of flour, and 0.5 cups of butter.
The ratio between flour and butter is:
[tex]4\text{ cups of flour }\colon0.5\text{ cups of butter}[/tex]However, the third option gave the ratio as:
[tex]4\text{ cups flour }\colon1\text{ cup butter}[/tex]Thus, the ratio in the third option is incorrect.