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How much floor do you need for one

muffin if you used 5 cups of floor equally
to bake 2 1/2 muffins yesterday?

User Rasalas
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Answer:

2 cups

Explanation:

2.5 muffins : 5 cups

1 muffin : x cups

x = 5/2.5

x = 2

User Pax Beach
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Answer:

2 cups

Explanation:

We see that we need 5 cups of flour for 2.5 muffins. We want to find how much flour is needed for 1 muffin. Let's set up a proportion:


(5)/(2.5) =(x)/(1) , where x is how much flour is needed for 1 muffin

Cross-multiplying, we get:

2.5x = 5

x = 2

Thus, you need 2 cups of flour for one muffin.

Hope this helps!

User Roman Arzumanyan
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