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Hannah is making cakes for the bake sale at her school. Each cake requires 1 1/2 cups of sugar. How many complete cakes can Hanna make if she has 6 3/4 cups of sugar?

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Answer : 4

Step - by - step explanation :

In - order to find out how many cakes Hannah can make we need to find out how many 1 1/2 cups of sugar she has . . .

what is 6 3/4 divided by 1 1/2 --> 6 3/4 divided by 1 2/4 ? 4 1/2

SO ! Hannah can make 4 complete cakes

User JeffProd
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Answer:

4

Explanation:

Divide 6 3/4 by 1 1/2

Convert into improper fractions, 27/4 and 3/2


(27)/(4) / (3)/(2)


(27)/(4) * (2)/(3)


(9)/(2) = 4.5

The question asks for the number of whole cakes, so the answer would be 4.

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