Question

Medal!

A cookie recipe requires 3/4 cup of flour and 1/3 cup of butter to make one batch of cookies. Wendy has 2 cups of flour and 3/4 cup of butter. How many whole batches of cookies can she make?
A. 1
B. 2
C. 3
D. 4

Answer 1

wait while I do an equation.

Answer 2

Flour: \[\frac{ 3 }{ 4 }+\frac{ 3 }{ 4 }=\frac{ 6 }{ 4 }\]Flour totals to 1 1/2 cups

Butter: \[\frac{ 1 }{ 3 }+\frac{ 1 }{ 3 }=\frac{ 2 }{ 3 }\]
Butter totals to 2/3 cups.

Can you figure out how many batches she can make?

Answer 3

Do you add the 2/3 and 6/4?

Answer 4

Hint: 3/4 is bigger than 2/3

Answer 5

No, think about the numbers separately.

Answer 6

How many batches of flour can she have with two cups of flour.

Answer 7

How many batches of butter can she have with 3/4 cups of butter.

Answer 8

I was thinking about dividing the 2 by 3/4 (flour) and 3/4 divided by 1/3 (butter). Then add the whole numbers that there are.

Answer 9

She can make two batches of cookies, because she has enough of each ingredient for both batches.

Answer 10

Do you figure that out by dividing? Or by your strategy?

Answer 11

When I divided 2 by 3/4 = 2 2/3
When I divided 3/4 by 1/3 = 2 1/4
Add the whole numbers = 2 + 2 = 4

Answer 12

I just used my own strategy. I added them together to figure out how much would be needed for two recipes.