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Kendra's grandmother uses 3 3/4 cups of sugar to make 2 batches of cookies. Cups of Sugar per batch:

Kendra's grandmother uses 3 3/4 cups of sugar to make 2 batches of cookies. Cups of-example-1
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To use a number line to solve this problem, we first need to convert 3 3/4 cups of sugar to a mixed number with a whole number and a fraction. We can do this by dividing 3 by 4 and then adding the result to 3.

3 / 4 = 0.75

3 + 0.75 = 3.75 cups

Now that we have the total number of cups of sugar as a mixed number, we can use a number line to divide it by 2. We do this by finding the halfway point between 0 and 3.75 on the number line. This point is at 1.875 cups.

0----------------1----------------2----------------3----------------4

1 3/4 cups 1 3/4 cups

Since there are 2 batches of cookies, and we found that each batch uses 1 3/4 cups of sugar, we can say that the number of cups of sugar per batch is 1 3/4 cups.

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