Question

April made 40 cookies for the upcoming bake sale. She made 3/5 of the cookies chocolate chip and 1/4 of them are peanut butter cookies. How many chocolate chip and peanut butter cookies are there all together

Answer 1

34 cookies

Explanation:

Number of chocolate chip cookies are 3/5th of 40

Number of Peanut Butter cookies are 2/4th of 40

We find them and ADD both to figure out how many are there altogether. Let's do each multiplication. Shown below:

Number of Chocolate Chip Cookies =
`(3)/(5)*40=(120)/(5)=24` cookies

Number of Peanut Butter Cookies =
`(1)/(4)*40=(40)/(4)=10` cookies

In total = 24 + 10 = 34 cookies.