You are baking a cake, and the recipe calls for 3/8 of a cup of flour and 1/2 of a cup of sugar. What is the total amount of flour and sugar, as a reduced fraction?

Step-by-step explanation:

To find the total amount of flour and sugar, you have to find a common denominator for the two fractions and then add them together.

multiplied by 4 equals .

Now that the fractions both have a common denominator of 8, we can add them together:

+ =

The total amount of flour and sugar is

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b. astronomers

answer: the answer is one of

step-by-step explanation:   we are given to write a proper fraction where the whole is divided into an even number of equal parts less than ten, and an odd number of those parts exist.

an even number less than 10 may be one of 2, 4, 6 or 8. so, the whole may be one of these four evens.

now, an odd number of these parts must exist, so the numerator must be an odd number, one of 1, 3, 5 or 7. it cannot be 9 because then the fraction will become improper.

thus, our fraction may be one of the following