use recipes to practice multiplication with fractions and mixed numbers work together to solve problems such as one batch of recipe calls for 2 1/4 cup of flour how much would flour would we need to make 1/2 batches

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Lexie Orozco

13 October, 05:16

use recipes to practice multiplication with fractions and mixed numbers work together to solve problems such as one batch of recipe calls for 2 1/4 cup of flour how much would flour would we need to make 1/2 batches

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Ruby Harper · Answer 1

1 batch uses 2.25 cups, so a 1/2 batch would use half the cups of flour as a full batch

the proportion would be 1/2.25=0.5/x cross multiply

(1*x) = x

(2.25x0.5) = 1.125

x=1.125