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Answer:There is no answer in general because a cup is a unit of volume and an pound is a unit of weight. You need to know the density of what you're measuring - to make an extreme example, a cup of lead and a cup of feathers have exactly the same volume but are drastically different in weight!

This confusion between volume and weight in traditional imperial measurement units has probably arisen because of the term "ounce". It is used to describe both a unit of weight and a unit of volume (the "fluid ounce"). But as already stated, these are not equivalent.

For water 1 cup = 8 fluid ounces = 8 ounces weight = 0.5 pounds.

So 2 cups water weighs 1 pound. But this only works for water.

Sugar is almost the same so 2 cups sugar weighs approximately 1 pound.

But for flour you have 4 cups per pound.

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