How many ounces of cinnamon is needed to bake cookies with 7 and 1/2 cups of flour if 1/3 ounce is cinnamon is needed for each 1 and 1/2 cups of flour?

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Brent Forbes

13 July, 17:15

How many ounces of cinnamon is needed to bake cookies with 7 and 1/2 cups of flour if 1/3 ounce is cinnamon is needed for each 1 and 1/2 cups of flour?

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Shyann Lucero · Answer 1

Answer: 1 2/3 ounces of cinnamon is needed.

Step-by-step explanation:

1/3 ounce is cinnamon is needed for each 1 and 1/2 cups of flour. Converting 1 and 1/2 cups to improper fraction, it becomes 3/2 cups.

It means that the number of ounces of cinnamon need for 1 cup of flour would be

(1/3) / (3/2) = 1/3 * 2/3 = 2/9 ounces of cinnamon.

Converting 7 and 1/2 cups of flour to improper fraction, it becomes 15/2 cups of flour.

Therefore, the ounces of cinnamon needed to bake cookies with 15/2 cups of flour is

2/9 * 15/2 = 15/9 = 5/3

= 1 2/3 ounces of cinnamon