Lily is making smoothies. each smoothie uses 1/2 cup of yogurt. How many cups of yogurt does she need to make 3 smoothies? Express your answer in simplest form
To make 3 smoothies, Lily will need 3 * 1/2 = <<3*1/2=1 1/2>>1 1/2 cups of yogurt. Answer: \boxed{1 \frac{1}{2}}.
To find out how many cups of yogurt Lily needs to make 3 smoothies, we can multiply the number of smoothies by the amount of yogurt each smoothie uses.
Number of smoothies: 3
Amount of yogurt per smoothie: 1/2 cup
Multiplying the number of smoothies by the amount of yogurt per smoothie, we have:
3 * 1/2 = 3/2
Therefore, Lily would need 3/2 cups of yogurt to make 3 smoothies.
To find out how many cups of yogurt Lily needs to make 3 smoothies, we need to multiply the amount of yogurt used in one smoothie by the number of smoothies:
Amount of yogurt in one smoothie: 1/2 cup
Number of smoothies: 3
To multiply fractions, we simply multiply the numerators together and the denominators together:
(1/2) * 3/1
Multiplying the numerators, we get 1 * 3 = 3. Multiplying the denominators, we get 2 * 1 = 2.
So, 1/2 * 3/1 = 3/2.
Therefore, Lily needs 3/2 cups of yogurt to make 3 smoothies.