A recipe for 1 pumpkin pie calls for 1\1\4 cups of sugar. Alana has only 1/2 cup of sugar and she had to make 4 pies. How much sugar does she need to make all 4 pies.

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Step-by-step explanation:

1 pie calls for 1 1/4 cups of sugar....so 4 pies calls for :

4 * 1 1/4 = 4 * 5/4 = 20/4 = 5 cups of sugar

she has 1/2 a cup....so she still needs 5 - 1/2 = 4 1/2 cups <==

She needs 5 cups. :))))