To find out how may 4/7 cup sugar bowls can be filled with 8 cups of sugar, you must divide the total amount of sugar (i.e. 8 cups) by the size of each sugar bowl (4/7).  When dividing 8 cups of sugar by 4/7 of a cup, however, the recipricol of 4/7 is multiplied by 8: Mathematically, 8/(4/7) is equivalent to 8 * 7/4.  Therefore, after multiplication, the answer is 56/4, or 14 sugar bowls will be filled with 8 cups of sugar if each sugar bowl holds 4/7 of a cup.