A set of measuring cups has measures of 1 cup, 3/4 cup, 1/2 cup, 1/3 cup, and 1/4 cup. How could you measure 1/6 cup of milk by using these measuring cups?

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Ricardo A.
Oct 14, 2016

Measure #1/2" cup"# and pour #1/3" cup"# into that cup. #1/6" cup"# will be left in the first cup.

Explanation:

First lets put all the measurements of the cups that we can into 6ths.
#1" cup" = 6/6" cups"#

#1/2" cup"= 3/6 " cup"#

#1/3 " cup"=2/6 " cup"#

#3/4 " cup"# and # 1/4 " cup"# don't translate into 6ths so we'll ignore them.

Now looking at the above numbers we can see that #3/6 -2/6=1/6# so what we have to do is measure out #1/2" cup"# and pour from that into the #1/3" cup"#. We will have #1/6" cup"# left in the #1/2" cup"# cup.

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