Question

Katya is baking cookies that requires 8 1/2 grams of vanilla paste per batch. She has 22 1/5 grams of vanilla paste. How many batches of cookies can she bake?

Answer 1

To solve this problem you must apply the proccedure shown below:

1. Let's express the quantities as improper fractions.

2. You have that she requires:

`8^{(1)/(2) }=(17)/(2)` grams of vanilla paste per batch.

3. And she has:

`22^{(1)/(5) } =(111)/(5)` grams of vanilla paste.

3. Therefore, you must divide both quantities to solve the exercise and you can express the result as a mixed number.

`((111)/(5) )/((17)/(2) ) =(222)/(85) =2^{(3)/(5) }`

Therefore, as you can see, the answer is: She can bake
`2^{(3)/(5) }` batches of cookies.