Question

Maria is baking apple cinnamon muffins. Use the recipe card to answer the questions.

Apple Cinnamon Muffins recipe needs one and a half cups of flour, three-fourths cup of white sugar, two teaspoons baking powder, half a teaspoon of salt, one and three-eighths teaspoons cinnamon, three-fourths teaspoon nutmeg, one-fourth cup vegetable oil, three-eighths cup milk, one and quarter cups chopped apples and one egg.

Maria puts some of the chopped apples in a bowl. She leaves out 1/2



cup of the apples to use later in the recipe. Next, she adds all of the oil.

What is the total amount of the apples and oil in the bowl?

Answer 1

The recipe calls for 1 and 1/4 cups of chopped apples, which is equivalent to 1.25 cups. Since Maria leaves out 1/2 cup of the apples to use later, she puts in:

1.25 cups - 0.5 cups = 0.75 cups of chopped apples in the bowl.

Next, she adds 1/4 cup of vegetable oil to the bowl.

Now, to find the total amount of apples and oil in the bowl, we add the amounts together:

0.75 cups (chopped apples) + 0.25 cups (oil) = 1 cup.

So, the total amount of apples and oil in the bowl is **1 cup**.