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Tatenda has a Chocolate chip cookie recipe that uses 2 cups of sugar for 5 dozen cookies.How much sugar will he need if he only wants to make 40 cookies

User Barbushin
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5dozen = 60cookies.
to downsize the recipe we divide the amount we want to make by the recipe
40/60 and then multiply by the amount in the recipe 2cups.
your answer is 1 1/3cups of sugar


User Chris Gilardi
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1 1/3 CUP

You would put
2 cups times x
_____ _____
60 cookies. 40 cookies

You would need to cross multiply then divide.
so 2 times 40 divided by 60

you would need to make 5 dozens into the amount of cookies
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