Jack and Helen are making cookies 1/2 cup of butter with 3/4 cup of chocolate chips and three eights chopped nuts when these three ingredients are mixed together how many cups of the mixture show your work

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Roland Dalton

Mathematics

22 August, 04:22

Jack and Helen are making cookies 1/2 cup of butter with 3/4 cup of chocolate chips and three eights chopped nuts when these three ingredients are mixed together how many cups of the mixture show your work

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Noelle Chapman · Answer 1

1.

butter: 1/2

chocolate: 3/4

chopped nuts: 3/8

2.

Make all of them have the same denominator:

1/2 - --> 4/8

3/4---> 6/8

3/8 - -->3/8

3.

Add them all up:

4/8 + 6/8 + 3/8 = 13/8 = 1 and 5/8