Question

Natasha made a sauce and cooking class. She used 2 3/4 cups of cream, 1/2 teaspoon of salt, 3/8 cup of chives and 1 1/4 cups of butter. Approximately how many cups of ingredients did she use?A. 0.5 B. 4 C. 5 D. 6

Answer 1

Problem

Natasha made a sauce and cooking class. She used 2 3/4 cups of cream, 1/2 teaspoon of salt, 3/8 cup of chives and 1 1/4 cups of butter. Approximately how many cups of ingredients did she use?​

Solution

For this case we can convert the first number with this operation:

`2(3)/(4)=(2\cdot4+3)/(4)=(11)/(4)`

We have 1/2 of cups for teaspoon of salt

And for 1/4 we have:

`1(1)/(4)=(1\cdot4+1)/(4)=(5)/(4)`

And in order to find the total of cups we can do this operation:

`(11)/(4)+(1)/(2)+(5)/(4)`

And after operate we got:

`(13)/(4)+(5)/(4)=(18)/(4)=(9)/(2)`

the best option for this case would be:

C. 5