Question

Steve is making breakfast. The recipes call for 7/8 cup of milk for grits and 3/4 cups .for biscuits he only has 2 cups of milk. Does he have enough to make his breakfast? Explain

Answer 1

Steve needs a total of 1 5/8 cups of milk for both recipes, and since he has 2 cups, he has enough milk to make his breakfast.

Step-by-step explanation:

Steve is making breakfast and needs to determine if 2 cups of milk is enough for his recipes which call for 7/8 cup of milk for grits and 3/4 cups of milk for biscuits.

First, we need to add the two amounts of milk needed for the recipes together:

7/8 cup for grits

3/4 cup for biscuits

To add fractions, we need a common denominator, which in this case is 8:

7/8 cup for grits remains the same.

3/4 cups for biscuits can be converted to 6/8 cups (since 3x2 = 6 and 4x2 = 8).

Adding these together:

7/8 + 6/8 = 13/8 cups of milk needed in total.

To determine if Steve has enough milk, we convert 13/8 cups to a mixed number:

13/8 cups equals 1 5/8 cups of milk.

Since Steve has 2 cups of milk, which is more than 1 5/8 cups, he does indeed have enough milk to make his breakfast.

Answer 2

Answer: He does have enough.
Explanation: Simplifying 7/8 cups to fourths you get 1 3/4 cups of milk. If he has 2 cups of milk he still would have 1/4 cup left over of milk.