You are making pudding for five friends. The recipe calls for 1/4 cup of sugar per serving. How much sugar do you need?

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Step-by-step explanation:

This question asks how much total sugar will be needed for 5 servings of 1/4 cup. In other words, this is asking for 1/4 cup to be added together 5 times. However, repeated addition is just multiplication, so this can become a multiplication problem. To do this make both terms a fraction by putting 5 over 1. This looks like: . Then, simply multiply the numerators together and the denominators together. This equals . If needed this can be put into the mixed fraction of cups.

because linear equations are a lot simpler than quadratics equations, and linear equations formula is a lot easier to memorize. that's why i think they're harder.