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A recipe for cookies calls for 8 cups of sugar to make 32 cookies. If I only need 8 cookies how many cups of sugar should be used

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Answer: 2 cups of sugar. Explanation: First, put the ratio of cups of sugar to cookies into a fraction, and simplify the fraction by dividing each numerator and denominator of the fractions in half. 8/32 = 4/16 = 2/8 = 1/4. In the simplification process, you can see that one of the fractions is 2/8, meaning there are two cups of sugar for 8 cookies. This is your answer: 2 cups of sugar for 8 cookies.
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