Natalie has 2 cups of dough to make dumplings. If she uses one half
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cup of dough for each dumpling, how many dumplings can Natalie make?
Answer
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We know that Natalie uses 1/2 cup of dough for each dumpling and she has 2 cups of dough in total.
To find out how many dumplings Natalie can make, we need to divide the total amount of dough by the amount of dough used for each dumpling.
So, we need to divide 2 cups by 1/2 cup:
2 cups ÷ (1/2 cup) = 2 cups × (2/1) = 4 dumplings
Therefore, Natalie can make 4 dumplings.
To find out how many dumplings Natalie can make, we need to divide the total amount of dough she has (2 cups) by the amount of dough needed for each dumpling (1/2 cup per dumpling).
So, we will perform the following division:
2 cups ÷ (1/2 cup per dumpling)
To divide by a fraction, we can multiply by its reciprocal. The reciprocal of (1/2) is (2/1), so we can rewrite the division as:
2 cups × (2/1)
Multiplying across gives us:
2 cups × 2/1 = 4/1 = 4
Therefore, Natalie can make 4 dumplings with 2 cups of dough.
To find out how many dumplings Natalie can make, we need to divide the total amount of dough she has by the amount of dough needed for each dumpling.
Natalie has 2 cups of dough, and she uses one-half cup of dough for each dumpling. To represent this as a fraction, we can write it as:
1/2 cup of dough per dumpling
To find the number of dumplings, we need to divide the total amount of dough (2 cups) by the amount of dough per dumpling (1/2 cup):
2 cups of dough ÷ 1/2 cup of dough per dumpling
To divide by a fraction, we multiply by its reciprocal:
2 cups of dough × 2/1 cup of dough per dumpling
Simplifying the fraction:
2 cups of dough × 2/1 cup of dough per dumpling
= 4 cups of dough per dumpling
So, Natalie can make 4 dumplings with 2 cups of dough.