The main ingredients for Kayla’s banana bread recipe are 2 1/3 cups of flour, 3/4 cup of sugar? And 1 1/2 cups of mashed bananas. How many more cups of dry ingredients (flour and sugar) then wer ingredients (bananas) go into Kayla’s banana bread? Explain

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Answer:

[tex]1 \dfrac{7}{12} \ \textsf{cups}[/tex]

Step-by-step explanation:

Banana bread recipe:

  • Flour = [tex]2 \dfrac13[/tex] cups
  • Sugar = [tex]\dfrac34[/tex] cups
  • Banana = [tex]1 \dfrac12[/tex] cups

Dry ingredients = flour + sugar

                          [tex]=2 \dfrac13+\dfrac34=\dfrac73+\dfrac34=\dfrac{37}{12} \ \textsf{cups}[/tex]

Difference = dry ingredients - bananas

                  [tex]=\dfrac{37}{12}-1 \dfrac12\\\\=\dfrac{37}{12}-\dfrac32\\\\=\dfrac{37}{12}-\dfrac{18}{12}\\\\=\dfrac{19}{12}\\\\=1\dfrac{7}{12} \ \textsf{cups}[/tex]