It takes $1\dfrac{1}{2}$ cups of flour, $1\dfrac{1}{4}$ cups of sugar, and $\dfrac{1}{2}$ cup of butter to bake fifteen shortbread cookies. If Ramon has $5$ cups of flour, $4$ cups of sugar, and $1\dfrac{3}{4}$ cups of butter, how many shortbread cookies can he bake?

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mathmale · Answer

Unfortunately, it's hard to read your post.  If you could possibly input it without using Equation Editor, or (better yet) fix your post so that it will display properly, you'd probably get more and better help with this problem.

anonymous · Answer

t takes 3/2 cups of flour, 5/4 cups of sugar, and 1/2 cup of butter to bake fifteen shortbread cookies. If Ramon has 5 cups of flour, 4 cups of sugar, and 7/4 cups of butter, how many shortbread cookies can he bake?

mathmale · Answer

Wow.  You apparently have a good friend in Hooter12.
Supposing that it takes 3/2 cups of flour to bake 15 shortbread cookies, and that Ramon has 5 cups of flour.  Considering flour alone, how many cookies could he bake?

tboi · Answer

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