Question

Dante is baking two different recipes, cookies and brownies. The cookie recipe requires 1.5 cups of sugar, and the brownie recipe requires 1.25 cups of sugar.

Write an addition equation to represent the total amount of sugar Dante needs.

Answer 1

I believe you should be adding the amount of sugar in each recipe, so the equation would probably look like this:
1.5 + 1.25 = ?
*Equations always have equal signs

Answer 2

2.75