Rita is baking a few cakes for the bake sale. Each cake requires 2 1/2 cups of
sugar. How many cakes can she bake if she has 7 1/3-cups of sugar?
can you help rita to determine how many cakes she can make?
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Step-by-step explanation:
simply divide the amount of sugar (7 1/3) bu the amount of sugar needed to make one cake (2 1/2)
first convert to improper fractions fpr easier division
2 1/2 = 5/2
7 1/3 = 22/3
then proceed with division
reciprocate the divisor then replace division with multiplication