Alaina’s sugar cookie recipe calls for 2 1/4 cups of flour per batch. if she wants to make 2/3 a batch of cookies, how much flour should she use?

Alaina should use 1 1/2 cups of flour.

Step-by-step explanation:

This question is asking for you to solve using fractions.  If Alaina uses 2 1/4 cup of flour per batch then the amount she would need for just 2/3 of a batch would mean we need to multiply these fractions together.  Before we can multiply a mixed number (2 1/4), we need to turn it in to an improper fraction.  To turn a mixed number into an improper fraction, we multiply the whole number by the denominator, then add the numerator and put this value over the denominator:  4 + 2 + 1 = 9/4.  Then we multiply:

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