SOLUTION: Morgan is making two cookie recipes. Recipe A calls for one-third less than twice the number of cups of sugar that recipe B calls for. If she needs four and one-sixths cups of suga
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Question 1102016: Morgan is making two cookie recipes. Recipe A calls for one-third less than twice the number of cups of sugar that recipe B calls for. If she needs four and one-sixths cups of sugar in all, how many cups will she need for recipe A?
Answer by josgarithmetic(39618) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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A calls for one-third less than twice the number of cups of sugar that recipe B calls for.
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he needs four and one-sixths cups of sugar in all,
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First substituting for A, solve for B, and then evaluating A, seems the clearest way.
But since question asks for A,...
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, LCD is 30...
multiply left and right by 30...
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