Question

A recipe calls for 2 tablespoons of butter for every 1.5 cups of sugar. The baker would like to cut the recipe in half. How much sugar would be needed for 1 tbs of butter?

Answer 1

0.75 Cups

Explanation:

I've found this method useful whenever I need to divide a mixed number. Instead of dividing 1.5 in half, we can just divide 1 and 0.5 in half and then add up our answers.

`1.5 / 2 = (1 / 2) + (0.5 / 2) \\ 1.5 / 2 = 0.5 + 0.25 \\ 1.5 / 2 = 0.75`