SOLUTION: You used 6 3/4c of sugar while baking muffins and nutbread for a class party. You used a total of 1 1/2c of sugar for the muffins. Your nutbread recipe calls for 1 3/4c of sugar

Question 68551This question is from textbook Practice Workbook
: You used 6 3/4c of sugar while baking muffins and nutbread for a class party. You used a total of 1 1/2c of sugar for the muffins. Your nutbread recipe calls for 1 3/4c of sugar per loaf. How many loaves of nubread did you make?

My equation is 6 3/4-1 1/2 = 1 3/4c is this right. Please help. This question is from textbook Practice Workbook

Answer by rmromero(383) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
What is asked in the problem?
How many loaves of nutbread did you make?

Given:
c of sugar was used baking muffins and nutbread.
c of sugar was used for the muffins.
it calls c of sugar per loaf of nutbread.

Operation used :
Subtraction of fractions.
Division of fractions.

Subtract the total sugar used for muffins and nutbread and the sugar used for muffins. what will be left will be the sugar that is used for nutbread.

Total sugar used less the sugar used in baking muffins = sugar for nutbread

c - c
= -
= c sugar used for nutbread

it calls c of sugar per loaf of nutbread, you have . how many loaves can you make out of that. Divide by .

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