Question

Karen has 1/2 cup of sugar. She is baking cookies and needs 1 1/3 cup for a recipe. How much more sugar does she need if she wants to triple the recipe?
1 1/3 x 1/2 = 4/3 x 1/2 =4/6 =2/3 cups is this right

Answer 1

Karen has 1/2 cup of sugar. She is baking cookies and needs 1 1/3 cup for a recipe. How much more sugar does she need if she wants to triple the recipe?
1 1/3 x 1/2 = 4/3 x 1/2 =4/6 =2/3 cups is this right

Answer 2

Karen has 1/2 cup of sugar. She is baking cookies and needs 1 1/3 cup for a recipe. How much more sugar does she need if she wants to triple the recipe?
1 1/3 x 1/2 =4/3-1/2
4/3= 8/6
1/2= 3/6
5/6 cups is that right answer

Answer 3

cookies ----> 1/2 cups of sugar, needs 4/3 cups
3*cookies ----> still only has 1/2 cups of sugar, need 4 cups

so she need an additional 4 - 1/2 cups or 7/2 cups of sugar

Answer 4

She needs1 1/3 cup for one cookie.

1 1/3 = 1 + 1 / 3 = 3 / 3 + 1 / 3 = 4 / 3

If she triple the recipe she needs:

3 ∙ 1 1/3 = 3 ∙ 4 / 3 = 4 cups for three cookies.

She has 1 / 2 cup of sugar so she need:

4 - 1 / 2 = 8 / 2 - 1 / 2 = 7 / 2 = 3.5 cups of sugar.


She needs 7 / 2 = 3.5 cup more sugar.

Answer 5

1/2 + 1 and 1/3 = (1 and 5/6)
1 and 5/6 cups of sugar is how much she needs right now but she wants to triple the recipe so 1 and 5/6 * 3= 5 and 1/2
so to triple the recipe he needs 5 and 1/2 cups but he already has that 1/2 cup of sugar so 5 and 1/2 - 1/2 = 5

HE NEEDS 5 CUPS OF SUGAR