Question

Jalil makes 3/8 cup of sugar with 1 and 5/6 cups of water how many more cups of water than sugar did he use in his mixture

Answer 1

Find the common denominator for 8 and 6. That's 48

So 3/8= 18/48

And 5/6=40/48

Minus 40 from 18 to find out how many more cups of water he used.

That's 22 cups of water.

Answer 2

Answer:

$4\frac{8}{9}$ more cups of water than sugar.

Step-by-step explanation:

In order to solve this you just have to divide the number of cups of water by the cups of sugar:

$\frac{1\frac{5}{6} }{\frac{3}{8} } \\\\\frac{\frac{6+5}{6} }{\frac{3}{8} } \\\frac{\frac{11}{6} }{\frac{3}{8} } \\\frac{11*8}{6*3}\\\frac{88}{18}\\\frac{44}{9}= 3\frac{8}{9}$

Now we know that for every cup of sugar, Jalil uses $4\frac{8}{9}$ cups of water.