Question

NeNe tripled a cookie recipe for a party. The original recipe called for 3.25 cups of sugar. NeNe tripled the sugar amount and poured it into a mixing bowl. The mixing bowl got knocked over and 2.46 cups of sugar spilled. How many cups of sugar were left in the mixing bowl?

Answer 1

Original sugar: 3.25 cups. Tripled: 3 × 3.25 = 9.75 cups.
After spilling 2.46 cups: 9.75 − 2.46 = 7.29 cups.

So 7.29 cups of sugar were left.