Question

A recipe calls for 5/8 cup butter. Angie wants to triple the recipe, but she has only 1 7/8 cups of butter. Howuch butter mus she barrow from a neighbor?

Answer 1

`\bf \cfrac{5}{8}\qquad tripled\implies 3* \cfrac{5}{8}\implies \cfrac{3* 5}{8}\implies \boxed{\cfrac{15}{8}}\\ --------------------\\ \textit{she only has }1(7)/(8)\textit{ well }1(7)/(8)\iff \cfrac{1\cdot 7+8}{8}`

so... how much does she have anyway?

Answer 2

Is 7/4 or 1 & 3/4 an answer?