On the last day of school, Alec wants to bring in homemade breakfast biscuits for his classmates. He makes a batch of 25 biscuits using 8 cups of flour.

Question

How much flour is in each biscuit?
Write your answer as a proper fraction or mixed number.

Answer 1

To find out how much flour is in each biscuit, we need to divide the total amount of flour by the number of biscuits.

Alec uses 8 cups of flour to make 25 biscuits. We can calculate the amount of flour per biscuit as follows:

\[ \text{Flour per biscuit} = \frac{\text{Total flour}}{\text{Number of biscuits}} = \frac{8 \text{ cups}}{25 \text{ biscuits}} \]

So, the amount of flour in each biscuit is:

\[ \frac{8}{25} \text{ cups} \]

Thus, there is \(\frac{8}{25}\) cups of flour in each biscuit.