A recipe uses ⅔ cup of flour and ⅝ cup of blueberries. Is there more flour or more blueberries in the recipe?

Mathematics · Middle School · Mon Jan 18 2021

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Given the statement:

A recipe uses ⅔ cup of flour and ⅝ cup of blueberries.

Determine if there are more cup of flour or cup of berries.

Solution:

In order to determine which measurement is greater given the fractions, we simply need to convert the fraction to decimal. To do so, we divide the numerator with the denominator.

Cup of flour
= ⅔
=0.66666 (repeating)

Cup of berries
=5/8
=0.625

Final answer:

There are more cup of flours than cup of berries.