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You are making small pizzas. You have 12 cups of flour. Each pizza crust requires 3/

4 cup of flour. How many pizza crusts can you make?

User Ddprrt
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Answer:

16 pizza crusts

Explanation:

If each pizza uses 3/4 cup of flour and you have 12 cups, you can make a cross-multiplication in order to divide 12 by 3/4. This means that the lower part of the fraction gets multiplied by 12 (in this case 4), and then that's divided by the upper part of the fraction (in this case 3). This is the calculation:

12x4=48

48/3=16

User Cyram
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Hello,

The answer is "16".

Reason:

Just divide 12 by 3/4:

12×4=48÷3=16
1×3=3÷3=1

16/1=16

Therefore they can make 16 pizza crusts!

If you need anymore help feel free to ask me!

Hope this helps!

~Nonportrit
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