Question

lila decided to make more baked goods for bake sale.She uses 1/8 lb less to make bread than to make cookies. She used 1/4 lb more flour to make cookies than to make brownies. If she used 1/2lb of flour to make the bread , how much flour did she use to make the brownies ?

Answer 1

Ok so we are trying to find out how much flour she used to make brownies so we already know that she used 1/2 flour to make bread and She uses 1/8 flour less flour to make bread than to make cookies so if we add 1/2 and 1/8 we will get the amount of flour she used to make the cookies so 1/2 + 1/8 = 5/8 so now that we have the amount of flour she used to make the cookies  we know that that is 1/4 more flour than brownies so if we subtract 5/8 by 1/4 we will get are answer to how much flour she uses to make brownies so 5/8 - 1/4 = 3/8 and that's your answer do you understand?

Answer 2

Answer:

$(\frac{3}{8})$ lb

Step-by-step explanation:

Lila uses $(\frac{1}{2})$ lb of flour to make the bread.

Since she uses  $(\frac{1}{8})$ lb less to make bread than cookies then flour used to make the cookies =  $\frac{1}{2}$ -  $\frac{1}{8}$

                                                    =  $\frac{4+1}{8}$

                                                    =  $(\frac{5}{8})$ lb

She used  $(\frac{1}{4})$lb more flour to make cookies than brownies then flour used to make brownies =  $\frac{5}{8}$ -  $\frac{1}{4}$

                                                      =  $\frac{5-2}{8}$ =  $(\frac{3}{8})$ lb

Therefore, flour used to make brownies in  $(\frac{3}{8})$ lb.