Question

Lila decided to make more baked goods for the bake sale. She used 1/8 lb less flour to make bread than to make cookies. She used 1/4 lb more flour to make cookies than to make brownies. If she used 1/2 lb of flour to make the bread, how much flour did she use to make the brownies? Explain your answer using a diagram, numbers, and words.

Answer 1

Answer:3\8 lbs of flour for brownies

Step-by-step explanation:

Bread = 1 /2 lbs flour

cookies uses 1/8 more flour ( she used 1/8 less flour for bread than cookies)

So cookies   will be 1/2 + 1/8  =   4/8 + 1/8 = 5/8 lbs

Brownies  uses less 1/4 less flour than cookies

so 5/8 - 1/4 =  5/8 - 2/8 = 3/8 lbs of flour

Steps   1/2 + 1/8 -1/4 = 3/8

Answer 2

Answer:

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?

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