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The cooking class used 18 cups of flour to make 8 identical loaves of bread. How many cups of flour were needed for each loaf ? Express each answer as a mixed number in Simplest form.

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What we need to do is divide 18 by 8 because 18 cups of flour makes 8 loaves of bread. By using a calculator, 18/8 = 2 1/4.