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Question

cups of sugar in a canister in the kitchen. Ms. Johnson used 1/2
of the sugar when she was preparing dessert for her daughter's birthday cake. How much sugar did she use?(1 point)

Answer 1

To find out how much sugar Ms. Johnson used, we need to calculate half of the amount of sugar in the canister, which is \( \frac{7}{8} \) cups.

We can do this by multiplying \( \frac{7}{8} \) by \( \frac{1}{2} \):

\[ \frac{7}{8} \times \frac{1}{2} = \frac{7 \times 1}{8 \times 2} = \frac{7}{16} \]

So, Ms. Johnson used \( \frac{7}{16} \) cups of sugar for the dessert.