Need math help with a recipe?!


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Need math help with a recipe?

I need 4 cups of cooked rice for a recipe. 1/4 cup of dry rice equals 3/4 cup cooked rice. How much rice should I start with to get 4 cups cooked? thanks!!!

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1 week ago
As for the first guy who answered me, not only did I report him for abuse, but I sent hime a "nice" email back. I can't do math but I sure can spell and I gave him a great example. Thanks to all who answered!


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1 week ago
As for the first guy who answered me, not only did I report him for abuse, but I sent hime a "nice" email back. I can't do math but I sure can spell and I gave him a great example. Thanks to all who answered!

1 1/3 cups of dry rice

a little more than 1 1/4 cups

like 4 and 3/4....

one and a third cups hunny :)

1 1/2 cups raw

one an one third cups dry rice

generally you cook one cup uncooked rice for every cup you want for cooked.. so one cup uncooked will equal two cups cooked... That's always what I've gone by!

GL!

just order out for chinese food

3/4 C uncooked rice.

One and 1/3rd cups.

3 times as much rice for every unit cooked.
Therefore 4cups required divided by 3
= 4/3
= 1 and 1/3 cups

One and a half cups of rice and three cups of water ought to give you 4 cups.

in order to solve this, we can use the following equation:
(3/4)x=4 (Where x represents the number of 1/4 cups)

To solve for X, simply multiply by multiplicative inverse of 3/4 which is 4/3...

Therefore:
x= 16/3

Simplifying, x=5 1/3

Simplifying further, remember x = 1/4 cup so...
5= 1 cup + 1/4 cup
1/3 = 1/3 cup

So You will need 1 Full cup of dried rice, along with a 1/4 cup and a 1/3 cup.....

That is unless you have a 1/12ths cup

At which point you would need 1 cup and 7/12 cup...

Enjoy that RICE!!! MMMM! :)


P.S. - I was just reading the other answers and most of them are wrong...this is the math answer and you can trust me..I'm a math teacher :)

i suck at math too. but i know the answer to this. how much pot do you freakin smoke?
you should be able to answer this.

1/4 dry ---makes --- 3/4 cooked
x ----------- 4

1 divided by 3/4

it is 4/3 of dry rice makes 4 fully cooked cups of rice

or 1 cup and 1/3




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