SOLUTION: A recipe for cake calls for 1 2/3 cups of brown sugar. If you are only making a half-batch, how much brown sugar would you need?

SOLUTION: A recipe for cake calls for 1 2/3 cups of brown sugar. If you are only making a half-batch, how much brown sugar would you need?

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Question 823324: A recipe for cake calls for 1 2/3 cups of brown sugar. If you are only making a half-batch, how much brown sugar

would you need?
Answer by jim_thompson5910(35256) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
1 2/3 = 1 + 2/3

1 2/3 = 3/3 + 2/3

1 2/3 = (3+2)/3

1 2/3 = 5/3

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Multiply 5/3 by 1/2 to get

(5/3)*(1/2) = (5*1)/(3*2)

(5/3)*(1/2) = 5/6

So the final answer 5/6
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