A recipe for 1 pumpkin pie calls for 1/1/4 cups of sugar. Alana has only 1/2 cup of sugar and she had to make 4 pies. How much sugar does she need to make all 4 pies.

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Cecelia Nielsen

22 February, 00:38

A recipe for 1 pumpkin pie calls for 1/1/4 cups of sugar. Alana has only 1/2 cup of sugar and she had to make 4 pies. How much sugar does she need to make all 4 pies.

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Hampton · Answer 1

Step-by-step explanation:

1 pie calls for 1 1/4 cups of sugar ... so 4 pies calls for:

4 * 1 1/4 = 4 * 5/4 = 20/4 = 5 cups of sugar

she has 1/2 a cup ... so she still needs 5 - 1/2 = 4 1/2 cups <==