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Chapter 1: Getting Started
Here are the major ingredients for 18 doughnuts:
1
4
cup warm water
3
4
cup warm milk
1
3
cup sugar
4 cups all-purpose flour
2 eggs
3 tablespoons butter
Based on these values, solve the following problems using the calculator.
Question
If you make 60 doughnuts according to the above recipe,
how many cups of warm milk are required?
At first, you may calculate how many cups of warm milk are
required for 1 doughnut =
3
4
÷
18
As for the ordinary calculation, the answer is 0.041666666. But
how much is 0.041666666 of a cup of warm milk?
The answer has three modes,
Decimal
numbers,
Mixed
(num-
bers) and
Improp
(er numbers). If the
Mixed
or
Improp
answer
mode is selected in the SETUP menu, you can obtain the answer
in fractions.
Quick Run-through: Fraction Calculation
1. Press
@
;
.
2. Select
F ANSWER
and press
2
.
3. Press
C
.
Now the answer mode is set to the fraction answer mode (Mixed).
Change answer
mode from
decimals to
fractions