Question

What are the ingredients for one-half of the recipe? 6 1/2 cups of flour, 7 teaspoons of cinnamon, 1/2 teaspoon of salt. What are the ingredients for one-half of the recipe?

Answer 1

take these mixed numbers first and switch them into fractions to do this take your whole number and multiply by the denominator of the fraction. In simplicity, You have 6 cups, and it takes 2 one-half cups to make one full cup, so to find out how many half cups 6 cups are, you just doo

\[6*2=12=\frac{12}{2}=12(\frac{1}{2})\]

Answer 2

let me rephrase that

\[6*\frac{2}{2}=\frac{12}{2}=12(\frac{1}{2})\]

Answer 3

so in other words 6 cups will make you 12 on half cups

Answer 4

its says i should multiply 6 1/2 and 1/2 right

Answer 5

not exactly you want to do this step by step

1) Take the whole number . In the first case you have 6 cups
2) Multiply this number by 1 (using the denominator of the preferred units: in this case one half cups.

\[1=\frac{2}{2}\]*This has one half on the bottom. This is what we need!. but if we divide by two we need to multiply by two otherwise we'll screw it up =/

3)This should get you your whole number in terms of onehalf cups

Answer 6

does this make sense?

Answer 7

well actallu 6 and 1/6 cups

Answer 8

alright so what has the denominator of 6 but is still one

Answer 9

aka \[1=\frac{?}{6}\]

Answer 10

ohok so 6/1 right

Answer 11

does \[1=\frac{6}{1}\]

Answer 12

oh wait do you mean the numerator has to be 6?

Answer 13

did you mean this
\[1=\frac{6}{6}\]

Answer 14

cos im a little confused on like how it is like 6 1/6 then 7 then 1/2 cos the 1/6 is the fraction and the whole number is 6 which is included with the 1/6 fraction . hopefully that made sense

Answer 15

well the others are pretty simple ... so lets do those first

Answer 16

kk

Answer 17

So we have 7 teaspoons of cinnamon, and we only need half of that. If we multiply by one-half (or divide by 2)

\[\frac{1}{2}*7=\frac{7}{2}\]

This fraction can be simplified into a mixed number because 2 goes into seven 3 times with a remainder of 1/2

\[3+\frac{1}{2}\]

Answer 18

so you'll need three and one-half teaspoons of cinnamon

Answer 19

then for the flour?

Answer 20

next you need half of a half teaspoon of salt. using the same technique before, divide by 2 of multiply by 1/2. You'll get 1/4 teaspoon ... this can also be shown as this