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Bob uses 2/5 of a cup of vinegar in his salad dressing recipe. How much vinegar would Bob use to make 2 3/4 recipes?

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Alls you would have to do in this real world problem is take the amount of vinegar it took to make 1 recipe, and multiply it by that of the new amount of recipes Bob wants to make.
2/5 * 2 3/4 = 2/5 * 11/4 = 1.1 Cups of vinegar
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