A recipe for chocolate chip cookies calls for 1 and one fourth1
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4 cups of flour. If you are making 2 and one half2
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2recipes, how many cups of flour are needed?
The number of cups of flour needed to make 2 and one half2
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2 recipes of chocolate chip cookies is ?
5/4*5/2=25/8 or 3 1/8 C flour. that is a lot of cookies.
To calculate the number of cups of flour needed to make 2 and one half (2 1/2) recipes of chocolate chip cookies, you'll need to multiply the amount of flour required for one recipe by the number of recipes.
The recipe calls for 1 and one fourth (1 1/4) cups of flour for one recipe.
First, let's convert 2 1/2 into an improper fraction:
2 1/2 = 5/2
Now, multiply the amount of flour required for one recipe by the number of recipes:
1 1/4 * 5/2
To multiply fractions, multiply the numerators (top numbers) together, and then multiply the denominators (bottom numbers) together:
(5 * 1) / (2 * 4)
Simplifying the numerator and the denominator:
5/8
The number of cups of flour needed to make 2 and one half (2 1/2) recipes of chocolate chip cookies is 5/8 cups.