Question

A recipe for brownies calls for 3/8 cup of sugar and the recipe makes 12 brownies what fraction of a cup is in each brownie?

Answer 1

Given that

12 cups of brownie contain 3/8 cup of sugar.

So each cup of brownie contain the fraction of sugar:

$\begin{gathered} fraction\text{ of sugar in 1 cup = }\frac{\frac{3}{8}}{12} \\ fraction\text{ of sugar in 1 cup =}\frac{3}{96} \end{gathered}$

So fraction of sugar in each cup is 3/96.