Arecipe calls for 3/4 cup of butter. angie wants to triple the recipe, but she has only 1 5/8.
how much butter must she borrow from a neighbor?

Let's start out by tripling the original recipe to see how much butter Angie needs.






So we need  cups of butter, but Angie only has . Let's subtract what Angie has from the total to see how much more she needs.



we will need the least common denominator for both fractions




So Angie need  cups more of butter for the recipe.

Where are the