Jordan uses 2/3 cup flour and 1/4 cup shortening in a recipe. how much more flour than shortening does?

Question

Jordan uses 2/3 cup flour and 1/4 cup shortening in a recipe. how much more flour than shortening does she use?

Answer 1

Find the difference between the cups of flour and cups of shortening.  Since she uses more flour, we set up the subtraction like this:

 

amount of cups of flour - amount of cups of shortening =

 

(2 / 3) - (1 / 4)

 

 

When adding or subtracting fractions with different denominators, we need to convert them to equivalent fractions with common denominators.  The common denominator is 12.

 

(8 / 12) - (3 / 12) =

 

5 / 12

 

 

Jordan has 5/12 more cups of flour than cups of shortening.