Question

Alice, Raul, and Maria are baking cookies together. They need 3/4 cup of flour and
1/3 cup of butter to make a dozen cookies. They each brought the ingredients they
had at home . Alice brought 2 cups of flour and 1/4 cup of butter, Raul brought 1 cup of flour and 1/2 cup of butter, and Maria brought 1and1/4 cups of flour and 3/4 cup of butter. If the students have plenty of the other ingredients they need (sugar, salt, baking soda, etc.), how many whole batches of a dozen cookies can they make ?

Answer 1

4.

This is one of those problems where you have to carefully add everything up.

they need 3/4 cup of flour and 1/3 cup of butter to make a batch of 12.

if you add up all the student's materials you realize that they have a total of

4 1/4 cups of flour and 1 1/2 cups of butter.

1.5 divided by 1/3 is approx 4.5.
4.25 divided by .75 is approx 5.66666666667

despite the materials to make 5 batches based on flour, they can only make 4.5 batches with butter, which rounds to 4.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

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