3 US tablespoons in US customary cups

Conversion

3 US tablespoons is equivalent to 0.1875 US customary cups.[1]

Conversion formula
How to convert 3 US tablespoons to US customary cups?

We know (by definition) that: 1⁢ustablespoon ≈ 0.0625⁢uscup

We can set up a proportion to solve for the number of US customary cups.

1 ⁢ ustablespoon 3 ⁢ ustablespoon ≈ 0.0625 ⁢ uscup x ⁢ uscup

Now, we cross multiply to solve for our unknown x:

x ⁢ uscup ≈ 3 ⁢ ustablespoon 1 ⁢ ustablespoon * 0.0625 ⁢ uscup → x ⁢ uscup ≈ 0.1875 ⁢ uscup

Conclusion: 3 ⁢ ustablespoon ≈ 0.1875 ⁢ uscup

3 US tablespoons is equivalent to 0.1875 US customary cups

Conversion in the opposite direction

The inverse of the conversion factor is that 1 US customary cup is equal to 5.33333333333333 times 3 US tablespoons.

It can also be expressed as: 3 US tablespoons is equal to 1 5.33333333333333 US customary cups.

Approximation

An approximate numerical result would be: three US tablespoons is about zero point one nine US customary cups, or alternatively, a US customary cup is about five point three three times three US tablespoons.

Footnotes

[1] The precision is 15 significant digits (fourteen digits to the right of the decimal point).

Results may contain small errors due to the use of floating point arithmetic.

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