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Answer:

Step-by-step explanation:
We want to simplify:

We rewrite as positive index to get:

This simplifies to

This will finally give us:

We cannot simplify further.
Hence the simplest form is 
Well since you're using 3/8 and you need to make 4 batches, you need to multiply 3/8 with 4 it would equal 12/8 or 1 4/8 (I could be wrong but this is my answer hopefully this helps) :) <span />