There are 7/8 cups of sugar in a canister she uses 1/2 of the sugar for the dessert, how much sugar did she use

Answer 1

To find out how much sugar she used, multiply the total amount of sugar in the canister by the fraction she used.

She has \( \frac{7}{8} \) cups of sugar and uses \( \frac{1}{2} \) of it:

\[ \text{Sugar used} = \frac{1}{2} \times \frac{7}{8} \]

To multiply these fractions, multiply the numerators and the denominators:

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

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