Claudia cookie recipe requires 1/4 cup of butter. She will only make half the recipe. She knows that 1 cup equals 16 tablespoons

How many tablespoons of butter does she need for half the recipe?

1 answer

To find out how many tablespoons of butter Claudia needs for half of her recipe, we first need to determine how much butter is needed for the full recipe.

The full recipe requires \( \frac{1}{4} \) cup of butter. Since there are 16 tablespoons in 1 cup, we can calculate how many tablespoons are in \( \frac{1}{4} \) cup:

\[ \frac{1}{4} \text{ cup} \times 16 \text{ tablespoons/cup} = 4 \text{ tablespoons} \]

Now, since Claudia is making half of the recipe, she will need half of the 4 tablespoons:

\[ \frac{4 \text{ tablespoons}}{2} = 2 \text{ tablespoons} \]

Thus, Claudia needs 2 tablespoons of butter for half the recipe.