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Please review the explanation below:

Answer: 1/4, 0.25, or .25

Since Kyle is serving four from a recipe designed for eight, he needs 4/8, or 1/2 the amount of each ingredient. One half of 1/2 teaspoon is found by multiplying:

(1/2) x (1/2) = 1/4

This answer could be gridded using the decimal equivalent of 1/2, namely 0.25 or .25, but in this example, the fraction is gridded to illustrate the use of the fraction bar.

Note that mixed numbers such as 3 1/2 cannot be gridded. They must be changed to a decimal or fraction form. In the case of 3 1/2, the answer could be gridded as 3.5 or as 7/2.

The answer for an alternate-format question using the standard grid shown here will NEVER be a negative number, such as –8, since the grid does not accommodate negative numbers.