Question

Jenn is preparing brown rice. She needs 11/2 cups of brown rice and 2 cups of water. Jenn has only 1/8 cups measuring cups. How many 1/8 cups each of rice and water will jenn use to prepare the rice

Answer 1

Hello!  So, 11/2 cups is simplified as 5 1/2 cups. In order to find out how many 1/8 cups Jenn will need to scoop, all you have to do is divide each number by 1/8. When you divide fractions, you keep the first fraction the same, change division into multiplication, and flip the second fraction over into it's reciprocal. So 2 / 1/8 becomes 2/1 * 8/1. With that being said, if you solve each of them correctly, here are your answers for the number of 1/8 cups needed.

Water: 16
Brown Rice: 44

Jenn willl have to use the 1/8 scoop to get water 16 times and the 1/8 scoop to get brown rice 44 times.