how to reduce a recipe/cooking math

Question

Hello:

Please help!

Looking for help to reduce a recipe that calls for 6 servings and I need to reduce recipe for 4 servings.  How do I go about this?

Thank you for any help  

 

Rae Berven

Answer 1

You have to propertion it out.

For example, if it calls for 6 servings of  ingredient A and 8 servings of ingredient B. to reduce it to 4 servings of ingredient A you have to propertion it:

6/8 = 8/x and then cross multiply this is just an example.