Taylor plans to use 2 cups of brown sugar in making 8 loaves of whole wheat bread.If this amount of brown sugar is divided equally into 3 parts, what fraction of a cup will there be for each loaf of bread?
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Whoops i meant 3 loaves of whole wheat bread!
Thanks for the clarification.
I'll be glad to check your answer.
I honestly don't understand it. at all.
2 cups/3 loaves = 2/3 cup for each loaf
To find out what fraction of a cup of brown sugar there will be for each loaf of bread, we need to divide the total amount of brown sugar (2 cups) by the number of loaves of bread (8).
First, let's find out how much brown sugar each loaf will receive. We do this by dividing the total amount of brown sugar by the number of loaves:
2 cups / 8 loaves = 0.25 cups
So, each loaf of bread will receive 0.25 cups of brown sugar.
To represent this as a fraction, we put the amount of brown sugar for each loaf (0.25 cups) over the total amount of brown sugar (2 cups):
0.25 cups / 2 cups
Simplifying this fraction, we divide both the numerator and the denominator by 0.25:
0.25 cups / 2 cups = 1/8
Therefore, each loaf of bread will receive 1/8 of a cup of brown sugar.