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A cooking for the nursing home is preparing 100 yeast rolls for dinner the dry ingredients needed include 14 1/8 cups of flour 6 3/8 cups of sugar and 3/8 cups of salt how many cups of dry ingredients are in this recipe

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Answer:

[tex]20\frac{7}{8}cups\text{ or 19}\frac{15}{8}\text{of dry ingredients}[/tex]

Explanations:

Given the following ingredients

Cups of flour = 14 1/8 = 113/8 cups

Cups of sugar = 6 3/8 cups = 51/8 cups

Cups of salts = 3/8 cups

Calculate the total cups of dry ingredients

[tex]Total\text{ cups}=\frac{113}{8}+\frac{51}{8}+\frac{3}{8}[/tex]

Find the LCM

[tex]\begin{gathered} Total\text{ cups}=\frac{113+51+3}{8} \\ Total\text{ cups}=\frac{167}{8} \\ Total\text{ cups}=20\frac{7}{8}cups \\ Total\text{ cups}=19+1\frac{7}{8} \\ Total\text{ cups}=19+\frac{15}{8} \\ Total\text{ cups}=19\frac{15}{8}cups \end{gathered}[/tex]

Therefore there are 19 15/8 cups of dry ingredients in this recipe

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