If Sandy’s cookie recipe calls for one-third cup of brown sugar and she increases it by two-ninths of a cup, how much brown sugar does she use?

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seven-ninths cup
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start fraction 5 over 9 end fraction cup
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start fraction 4 over 9 end fraction cup
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one-ninth cup

Answer 1

To calculate the amount of brown sugar Sandy uses, we first need to add one-third and two-ninths.

One-third can be written as 3/9, since 1/3 is equivalent to 3/9.

So, we have:

3/9 + 2/9 = 5/9.

Therefore, Sandy uses five-ninths (5/9) cup of brown sugar.

The correct answer is: start fraction 5 over 9 end fraction cup.