1. Jeffrey's recipe for oatmeal muffins calls for 2 1/4 cups of oatmeal and makes one dozen muffins. If he makes 2 dozen muffins for a club meeting and 3 1/2 dozen muffins for a family reunion, how much oatmeal will he use? 2. Express your answer as a fraction in the simplest form.
Luke has 1/2 of a package of dried apricots. He divides the dried apricots equally into 4 small bags. Luke gives one of the bags to a friend and keeps the other three bags for himself. What fraction of the original package of dried apricots did Luke keep for himself?