A recipe for 48 biscuits uses 2 2/3 cups of biscuit mix. How many biscuits are made from each cup of biscuit mix?
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To find out how many biscuits are made from each cup of biscuit mix, you need to divide the total number of biscuits by the total number of cups of biscuit mix used in the recipe.
First, we need to convert the mixed number, 2 and 2/3, to an improper fraction. To do this, we multiply the whole number (2) by the denominator of the fraction (3), and then add the numerator (2) to get the new numerator, which is 8. The denominator remains the same.
So, 2 and 2/3 can be written as (2 * 3 + 2) / 3 = 8/3 cups.
Next, we can divide the total number of biscuits (48 biscuits) by the total number of cups of biscuit mix (8/3 cups) used in the recipe.
To divide by a fraction, we multiply by its reciprocal. The reciprocal of 8/3 is 3/8. So, we can multiply 48 biscuits by 3/8.
48 biscuits * (3/8 cups / 1 biscuit) = 144/8 cups
To simplify the fraction 144/8, we divide both the numerator and the denominator by their greatest common divisor (GCD), which is 8.
144/8 = (18 * 8) / (1 * 8) = 18 cups.
Therefore, each cup of biscuit mix will make approximately 18 biscuits.
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Thank you,Ms. Sue.
48/2.6667 = x/1
2.6667x = 48
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