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Jean Paul uses 1/3 cup walnuts 1/8 cup chocolate chips and 1/2 cup coconuts in his cookie recipe of these ingredients of which is used the most use fraction bars to explain your answer

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The question is:

Jean Paul uses 1/3 cup walnuts, 1/8 cup chocolate chips, and 1/2 cup coconuts in his cookie recipe. Of these ingredients, which is used the most? Use fraction bars to explain your answer

Answer:

Of the ingredients, 1/2 cup coconuts is used the most.

Explanation:

We want to use fraction bar to show the size of each fraction.

If

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1 =

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1/3 =

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1/8 =

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1/2 =

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1/2 is obviously larger than 1/8 and 1/3.

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