We're only looking at one year here and car reliability for brands changes over time so a specific brand car from 2013 or 2002 may be more or less reliable and that would impact the repair and maintenance costs. Lastly, of course these are just meant as average costs and everyones individual experiences will vary.
Best Answer: 1 stick of butter = 8 tablespoons 8 tablespoons = 1/2 cup 1 cup of butter = 2 sticks.
And the whole time, they're asking for the same thing! In this country, butter is mostly packaged in 1-pound boxes, with four individually wrapped quarters or sticks. Each pound is two cups of butter. Each quarter-pound stick is 8 tablespoons or a half a cup. Each tablespoon is 1/2 ounce. (So to answer your question, a half pound of butter is one cup.) To thwart the wicked aims of those recipe writers once and for all, we present the following fool-proof.