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how many 1/2 cups to make 3/4 of a cup?

Sagot :

Fill a cup with the thing you want to measure. Pour or take out half of it into another cup(this is 1/2 cup,). Now from either of the cups take out half of the thing you are measuring(it is 1/4 cup) . Add this one fourth quantity to half of the quantity now the final quantity in the cup is 3/4( 1/2 +1/4).

We are required 1.5 half cups to form the required fraction of a cup.

What is a fraction?

The upper part of a fraction is numerator and the lower part is denominator.

How to find the fraction?

We are told to make 3/4 of a cup from1/2 of cup so let the number of times we need half of a cup be x

So

1/2 * x=3/4

x=3/2 which means 1.5

So we need 1.5 times the half cup to make 3/4 of a cup.

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