Question: how many 1/4 cups does it take to make 1 cup?
Answer: 4 of them would make one cup. Look at it like this 1/4 cup is actually a cup divided into 4 equal parts…. So 1/4 cup is 1 out of the 4 it takes to make a whole cup. So if you need 2 cups you would need 8 of the 1/4 cups.