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George is making cookies the recipe says he needs 3/4 cups of sugar. if he reduces the recipe to make half the number of cookies how much sugar would he need then
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George is making cookies the recipe says he needs 3/4 cups of sugar. if he reduces the recipe to make half the number of cookies how much sugar would he need then

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To divide fractions you have to multiply by the reciprocal so instead of 3/4 divide 2/1 you would do 3/4 times 1/2 so you would get

3/8 cups of sugar
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