Question

Lisa is cooking muffins. The recipe calls for 7 cups of sugar she already has put in 2 cups how many more cups does she need to put in? write the equation that matches this situation and solve

Answer 1

Okay, here we have this:

Considering the provided information we obtain that:

Cups Missing = Total Cups - Cups Added

Replacing:

Cups Missing = 7 cups - 2 cups

Cups Missing = 5 cups.

Finally we obtain that she needs 5 more cups of sugar.