Help with conversions

Hi All,

I'm a very new brewer and I need some help. I have only done kits so far, but I want to Make Orfy's Mild Mannered Ale. The problem I'm having is with conversions. Orfy says to use 4.89Lbs of Light LME. My LHBS has them in 3.3Lb containers, so I thought, Okay, I'll get one of them and some more DME. I believe I should be using 2Lbs of DME and the 3.3Lbs of LME to get to an equivalent of 4.9 LME. Is that correct? Thanks!

Kevin

1lb LME is equivalent to .8 lb DME

Right, so if I subtract 4.89 from the 3.3Lbs. I have in LME, I get 1.59 Lbs missing. If I take that 1.59 and divide by .8 I get 1.9875. I think this means I need to use 1.9875 lbs of DME to be equivalent. Is this correct. Sorry, but math isn't my strong suit.

Nope, I had that backwards. I think I would need 1.272 of the additional DME. Thanks for the help!