One ingredient of a recipe is 3/8 cup of milk. What part of a cup is needed to make one-half of the recipe?

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Chelsea Saunders

Mathematics

3 April, 10:49

One ingredient of a recipe is 3/8 cup of milk. What part of a cup is needed to make one-half of the recipe?

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Maggie Leach · Answer 1

To make the full recipe, you need 3/8 cup of milk. Multiply this value by 1/2 to figure out how much of this is needed for only half the recipe

(1/2) * (3/8) = (1*3) / (2*8) = 3/16

So you'll need 3/16 cup of milk to make one-half of the recipe