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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 make

 Jul 19, 2016
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Flour   5/1.5 = 3.33 'batches' of cookies

Sugar 4/1.25 = 3.2  ' batches'

Butter 1.75/.5 = 3.5 'batches'

 

The amount of sugar he has is the limiting ingredient      3.2  batches  x 15  cookies/batch  = 48  cookies

 Jul 19, 2016
edited by Guest  Jul 19, 2016

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