A recipe for strawberry smoothies requires a fourth of a cup of sugar and 1 cup of strawberries per smoothie. You are making your family smoothies and need to figure out how much sugar to buy for 4 smoothies. How much sugar to do you need?

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anonymous · Answer

1 cup of sugar?

anonymous · Answer

A fourth of a cup is one fourth of a whole. In other words, you need four 1/4s to create 1 cup. If you want 4 smoothies, you simply need 1 cup of sugar. Does this make sense?

anonymous · Answer

thank you! that makes sense now