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NeNe tripled a cookie recipe for a party. The original recipe called for 3.25 cups of sugar. NeNe tripled the sugar amount and poured it into a mixing bowl. The mixing bowl got knocked over and 2.46 cups of sugar spilled. How many cups of sugar were left in the mixing bowl? 0.79

9.75
7.38
7.29

User Srividya
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First, you need to know what 3X the amount of 3.25 is... It's 9.75
Then you just subtract what spilled out 9.75-2.46=7.29
So 7.29cups would be your answer

Hope this helps XD
User Kushagra Agarwal
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There are 7.29 cups of sugar left because:
When we triple 3.25 we have 9.75.
Since 2.46 cups spilled, we subtract this from 9.75 to get 7.29
User Despina Kastani
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