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Clifford is making a really big white cake for his sister birthday the recipe calls for 1.5 times as much flour sugar it also calls for one half as much better as sugar almond butter flour and sugar together total 7.5 cut how much butter sugar and flour Def Leppard it mean right and solve any Quetion remember today find your variable and to see your answer in the Fenton

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Clifford is making a really big white cake for his sister birthday the recipe calls for 1.5 times as much flour sugar it also calls for one half as much better as sugar almond butter flour and sugar together total 7.5 cut how much butter sugar and flour Def Leppard it mean right and solve any Quetion remember today find your variable and to see your answer in the Fenton
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If x= number of cups of sugar

then according to the question requirements
the amount of floor 1.5x and the amount of butter is 0.5x cups and the toal is 7.5 cups:

hence,

x+1.5x + 0.5x = 7.5

x (1+1.5+0.5) = 7.5

x= 7.5/ 3

x= 2.5


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