Question

Amar is making giant holiday cookies for his friends at school. He makes each cookie with 6 oz of cookie dough and decorates them with macadamia nuts. If Amar has 5 lbs of cookie dough (1 lb 16 oz) and 60 macadamia nuts calculate the following How many (full) cookies he can make?

Answer 1

`13(1)/(3)\ cookies`

Explanation:

we know that

Amar makes each cookie with 6 oz of cookie dough

we have

5 lb of cookie dough

Convert to ounces

1 lb=16 oz

so

5 lb=5*16=80 oz

Using proportion

Let

x ------> the number of cookies

`(1)/(6)(cookie)/(oz)=(x)/(80)(cookies)/(oz)\\\\x=80/6\\ \\x=13.33\ cookies`

Convert to mixed number

`13.33=13(1)/(3)\ cookies`

therefore

He can make
`13(1)/(3)\ cookies`