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A recipe for cookies calls for 3.75 cups of flour. If Irina only wants to make half a batch of cookies, how much flour should she use? Express your answer as a fraction.

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baileyseth47
divide 3.75 by 0.5 and then tell me what you get

Answer:

To make half batch of cookies, Irina needs

[tex]\frac{15}{8}[/tex] cups of flour.

Step-by-step explanation:

To find the answer to this question, we have to transform 3.75 into a fraction, and then divide it by 2. Such number can be transformed by dividing by 100 and then simplifying, as follows

[tex]3.75=\frac{375}{100}=\frac{75}{20}=\frac{15}{4}[/tex]

Now, we divide it by two

[tex]\frac{15}{4} \div 2=\frac{15}{4} \times \frac{1}{2}=\frac{15}{8}[/tex]

Therefore, to make half batch of cookies, Irina needs [tex]\frac{15}{8}[/tex] cups of flour.

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