Question

a bakery used 8 1/2 cups of flour to make a full sized cake. if they made a cake that was three-quarter the sized, how many cups of flour have they used?

Answer 1

Answer:

$6 \frac{3}{8}$

Step-by-step explanation:

Let's start by turning 8 1/2 into an improper fraction, which would be 17/2. To find the amount of cups needed for a cake that is 3/4 of a full cake, we multiply 17/2 by 3/4.

$\frac{17}{2} *\frac{3}{4} = \frac{17*3}{2*4} = \frac{51}{8}$

Turn the fraction into a mixed number:

$6 \frac{3}{8}$

That should be the correct answer. Hope this helps!!!