Question

Scott fills a container with sugar using a bowl. The bowl hold 1/4 cup of sugar. Scott uses 8 full bowls to fill the container. How many cups of sugar does the container hold?

Answer 1

Container holds 2 cups of Sugar.

Explanation:

Given:

Amount of Sugar bowl contains =
`(1)/(4) \ cup`

Number of bowls container is filled with = 8

We need find the number of cups of sugar container holds.

Solution:

Now number of cups of sugar container holds can be calculated by Multiplying Amount of Sugar bowl contains with Number of bowls container is filled with.

framing in equation form we get;

number of cups of sugar container holds =
`(1)/(4)*8 = 2 \ cups`

Hence Container holds 2 cups of Sugar.