1 cup in pints

Conversion formula

The conversion factor from cups to pints is 0.5, which means that 1 cup is equal to 0.5 pints:

1 cup = 0.5 pt

To convert 1 cup into pints we have to multiply 1 by the conversion factor in order to get the volume amount from cups to pints. We can also form a simple proportion to calculate the result:

1 cup → 0.5 pt

1 cup → V_(pt)

Solve the above proportion to obtain the volume V in pints:

V_(pt) = 1 cup × 0.5 pt

V_(pt) = 0.5 pt

The final result is:

1 cup → 0.5 pt

We conclude that 1 cup is equivalent to 0.5 pints:

1 cup = 0.5 pints

Alternative conversion

We can also convert by utilizing the inverse value of the conversion factor. In this case 1 pint is equal to 2 × 1 cup.

Another way is saying that 1 cup is equal to 1 ÷ 2 pints.

Approximate result

For practical purposes we can round our final result to an approximate numerical value. We can say that one cup is approximately zero point five pints:

1 cup ≅ 0.5 pt

An alternative is also that one pint is approximately two times one cup.

Cups to pints conversion table

For quick reference purposes, below is the conversion table you can use to convert from cups to pints