Suze wants to make 5 pies for a party. She needs 1 1/2 cup of confectioners sugar for each pie. She has two bags of confectioner
s sugars in her pantry. One bad has 3 1/4 cups remaining and the other bag has 6 1/8 cups remaining. How many cups of confectioners sugar Suze have left after she prepares her pies?
The total amt. of sugar Suze needs is 5(1 1/2 cups) = 15/2 cups, or 7.5 cups.
Combining the 3 1/4 and 6 1/8 cups of sugar remaining in the bag results in 3 2/8 + 6 1/8 cups, or 9 3/8 cups total. She needs only 7.5 cups of this sugar.
Thus, she has leftover the following amount: 9 3/8 - 7 4/8 cups, which
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