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Jenny has only 3 1/2 cups of flour in her house. She needs 1 5/8 cups for a brownie recipe. Her sister Jody needs 1 3/4 cup flour for her cookie recipe. Will there be enough flour for both recipes?

First, we are going to convert the fractions to a common denominator. You can see all the numbers are a factor of 8, so 8 will be our common denominator.

Converting 3 1/2: Let's ignore the 3 and only pay attention to the fraction.

1/2 * 4/4 = 4/8, so our new fraction is 3 4/8

Converting 1 3/4: We ignore the whole number (1) and pay attention to 3/4.

3/4 * 2/2 = 6/8, so our new fraction is 1 6/8

Now that we have the correct fractions to make it easy to subtract, we make our equation:

1 5/8 + 1 6/8 = 2 11/8, simplified: 3 3/8

We know that in total, Jenny has 3 4/8 cups and she used 3 3/8 cups in total, so yes, there will be enough with 1/8 cup left over.

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PLEASE HELP!!! I DON’T KNOW THISSS ITS DUE RLLY SOON!! Jenny has only 3 1/2 cups of flour in her house. She needs 1 5/8 cups for a brownie recipe. Her sister Jody needs 1 3/4 cup flour for her cookie recipe. Will there be enough flour for both recipes?

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PLEASE HELP!!! I DON’T KNOW THISSS ITS DUE RLLY SOON!!

Jenny has only 3 1/2 cups of flour in her house. She needs 1 5/8 cups for a brownie recipe. Her sister Jody needs 1 3/4 cup flour for her cookie recipe. Will there be enough flour for both recipes?