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A recipe for brownies calls for 3/8 cup of sugar and the recipe makes 12 brownies what fraction of a cup is in each brownie?

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Given that

12 cups of brownie contain 3/8 cup of sugar.

So each cup of brownie contain the fraction of sugar:


\begin{gathered} fraction\text{ of sugar in 1 cup = }((3)/(8))/(12) \\ fraction\text{ of sugar in 1 cup =}(3)/(96) \end{gathered}

So fraction of sugar in each cup is 3/96.

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