There are 7/8 cups of sugar in a canister in the kitchen. Ms. Johnson used 1/2 of the sugar when she was preparing dessert for her daughter's birthday cake. How much sugar did she use?(1 point)
To find out how much sugar Ms. Johnson used, we need to multiply 7/8 by 1/2.
7/8 * 1/2 = 7/16.
Ms. Johnson used 7/16 cups of sugar.
To find out how much sugar Ms. Johnson used, we need to find 1/2 of 7/8 cups. We can multiply the fractions to get the result.
1/2 * 7/8 = (1 * 7) / (2 * 8) = 7 / 16
Therefore, Ms. Johnson used 7/16 cups of sugar.