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According to a recipe, 2 1/2 cups of chocolate chips are needed to make a large batch of cookies. Manuel decided to make only 1/3 of the cookies. How many cups of chocolate chips will Manuel need?

(You can either Multiply or Divide and the answer has to be either 5/6 or 6)

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Answer:

6

Explanation:

Okay so you don't have a number of cookie makes it a bit harder but since the answer can only be 5/6 or 6 we'll say there is 45 cookies. So 1/3 of 45 = 15

so 15 divided by 2 1/2 = 6

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