Question 1206315
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Philip is making chocolate cupcakes for a school bake sale. 
He makes 4 batches and uses up an entire 5-cup bag of wheat flour. 
Philip decides to make one more batch of cupcakes with almond flour instead. 
The recipe says to add an extra 3/4 cup of flour if you're using almond flour.
Which equation can you use to find how much almond flour, a, is needed to make a batch of cupcakes?
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For one batch of chocolate cupcakes, Philip uses  {{{5/4}}}  cups of wheat flour.

For one batch of chocolate cupcakes,  {{{5/4}}}  cups plus extra  {{{3/4}}}  of a cup 
of almond flour are needed.


To get the answer, calculate the sum

    {{{5/4}}} + {{{3/4}}} = {{{8/4}}} = 2 cups.


<U>ANSWER</U>.  For one batch of chocolate cupcakes, 2 cups of almond flour are needed.
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As the text is posted, it is not, surely, a Math problem,

because it admits different interpretations.


The solution which I presented here, relates to one possible interpretation.