Question 1209192: A recipe calls for 3 2/3 cups flour AND sugar. The recipe only needs 1/4 c. of sugar. What is the total cups needed now.
Found 2 solutions by greenestamps, ikleyn:
Answer by greenestamps(13200)   (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
It's a shame that so many people don't know how to speak/write English....
"...3 2/3 cups of flour AND sugar..." means the TOTAL amount of flour AND sugar is 3 2/3 cups.
"What is the total cups needed now?"
What is the purpose of the "now" in that question? Nothing has happened; nothing in the statement of the problem says that any of the ingredients are changing or have changed.
The total cups needed, as stated in the first sentence, is 3 2/3 cups.
ANSWER: 3 2/3 cups
Answer by ikleyn(52784)  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! .
As I read and re-read this post several times, every time I become laughing.
And I know that if I will re-read it 40 more times, I will laughing again and again.
Because the main idea and the major conception of the author is sticking out too much.
The main idea, the major conception and the greatest wish of the author of this post
is to confuse a reader. If to call the things by their proper names - his goal is to deceive the reader.
Dear author, the main idea and the major goal of mathematical problems
 is  and  .
it is to give to a reader the best material to apply his/her knowledge,
to exercise and to learn something useful, as well as to develop his/her mind
from a problem posed by a clearest possible way.
From this post, it is obvious that
(1) the mathematical education of the problem's creator is from reading puzzles and comics, not from learning Math;
(2) knowing Math and knowing the proper Math style writing problems is at the zero level;
(3) this problem creator has no right idea, for what goal he creates his problems and disseminates them in the Internet.
Dear author, to be a successful Math problems composer, three things are needed:
- first, right selection and understanding of the goal;
- second, knowing the subject;
- and third, knowing in 10 times more than the subject.
And as a conclusion: the recipes similar to the described in this post, do not exist in the nature
and can not exist, because nobody in healphy mind will never read such gibberish and consider it as a receipt.
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