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David is baking cookies for the annual Manly Men Who Bake Contest. He has
of a cup of sugar in a container. He pours
of the sugar into the mixing bowl. How many cups of sugar does the mixing bowl contain?
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- 00:02
All right More drills for aspiring math people Here we
- 00:05
go David is baking cookies for the annual manly men
- 00:08
who bake contest You have been there done that He
- 00:11
has three fourths of a cop of sugar in a
- 00:13
container He pours an eighth of the sugar into the
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- 00:17
mixing bowl How many cups of sugar does the mixing
- 00:22
bowl contained Ooh that's a lot of fraction in chair
- 00:28
Yeah well here's a helpful hint for life and for
- 00:31
baking Finding the fraction of value means multiplying the fraction
- 00:35
by the value like of means times the problems asking
- 00:39
for an eighth of three force So let's give that
- 00:43
a shot So one eight times three forces the three
- 00:46
thirty seconds right Multiplying fractions is a lot more fun
- 00:49
than adding them right So that's it That's pretty easy
- 00:51
Three over thirty two So that's the answer It's just 00:00:54.949 --> [endTime] eat
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