Question

A recipe requires 3/4 cup of nuts for one cake.

Enter The maximum number of cakes that can be made using seven and a half cups of nuts. How many cakes can be made with 7 1/2 cups of nuts?

Answer 1

29 cakes
work below
3/4 x 2 = 1/2 cups
3/4 x 4 = 1 cups
3/4 x 28 = 7 cups
+ 2 3/4 cups = 29 = 7 1/2 cups
29 cakes can be made

Answer 2

10. How I would solve it, is I would convert them into decimals so it is 7.5/.75.