Sandra is cooking her famous brownies for her class. for her recipe she needs 5/7 of a cup of sugar and 1/8 as much salt as sugar. how much salt does she need for her recipe?

"1/8 as much salt as sugar" means
1/8 x amount of sugar
Salt = 1/8 x 5/7
Salt = 5/56 cups

1. isolate the variable, in this case, d. subtract 35.5 on both sides of the equation.2. 52 subtracted by 35.5 is 16.53. therefore your answer would be d= 16.5this is the basics of pre algebra, isolating variable through adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing, if you have any other questions to ask just comment!