You are baking cookies for a cookout. You want to make 4 times the amount in the recipe. The recipe requires two over three cup of sugar. How much sugar do you need? ( I Picked 6)

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You are baking cookies for a cookout. You want to make 4 times the amount in the recipe. The recipe requires two over three cup of sugar. How much sugar do you need?  ( I Picked 6)

anonymous · Answer

@mathmale  can you help?

mathmale · Answer

Angelic Melody, wish I could hear your angelic melody.  I'm literally deaf.  But anyway.  

If you have a recipe for making cookies, but want to quadruple it (that is, to make four times as many cookies for your hungry friends), you need to quadruple the measure of every ingredient.

If you need 2/3 cup sugar for the standard batch of cookies, then you'll need to multiply that by 4 if you're making four times as many cookies.  Would you try that, please?

mathmale · Answer

$$4(\frac{ 2 }{ 3 })=?$$

anonymous · Answer

hold on ill try it

mathmale · Answer

Please give me a cookie after you've successfully completed this problem.

anonymous · Answer

i tried and got alot of numbers that came up six was in it

mathmale · Answer

Thank you very much for the medal.  That replaces the cookie I'd asked for.    :)

anonymous · Answer

no problem

mathmale · Answer

Please use the Draw feature (below) to show us how you got that 6 as an answer.

mathmale · Answer

Hint:  What is $$4*2?$$

mathmale · Answer

Hint:  What is 8 divided by 3?

anonymous · Answer

|dw:1389921705269:dw| sorry bad drawing skills but it was like this