Why It Matters: Fractions
Why demonstrate an understanding of fractions and how they relate to one another?
Noelle is gathering ingredients to do her annual holiday baking. She's planning to bake chocolate cakes and cookies as gifts for her relatives. Noelle has 13 1/2 cups of flour, and she wants to bake as many chocolate cakes with it as she can. Then she plans to use any leftover flour to make cookies. Here's Noelle's recipe for chocolate layer cake:- 2 1/4 cups sugar
- 2 cups flour
- 3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 2 eggs
- 1 1/4 cups milk
- 1/2 cup vegetable oil
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 cup boiling water
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