a recipe for bread call for 5 1/6 cups of flour. matt accidentally put in 5 5/6 cups. how many extra cups did he put in?
5 5/6 - 5 1/6 = 4/6 = 2/3 cup
thats what i had
To find out how many extra cups of flour Matt put in, we need to subtract the correct amount of flour from the amount he actually put in.
The recipe calls for 5 1/6 cups of flour, which can be written as the improper fraction 31/6.
Matt accidentally put in 5 5/6 cups of flour, which can be written as the improper fraction 35/6.
To find the difference between these two quantities, we subtract the correct amount from the amount Matt used:
35/6 - 31/6 = (35 - 31) / 6 = 4/6.
Now, let's simplify this fraction. Both the numerator and denominator can be divided by their greatest common divisor, which is 2:
4/6 = (4 ÷ 2) / (6 ÷ 2) = 2/3.
Therefore, Matt put in an extra 2/3 cups of flour.