Question

shelf me on his making 14 dozen cookies for the school bake so he uses 7 and 1/2 cups of pecans to make the cookies how many cups of pecans to the nearest hundredth are in each cookie

Answer 1

EXPLANATION

Let's see the facts:

We have ----> 14 dozen of cookies

Each dozen is equal to 12 cookies, so the total number of cookies is:

12 * 14 = 168 cookies

The relationship between cups of pecans and cookies is:

7 1/2 cups of pecans for 12 cookies

Dividing the number of pecans by the numbers of cookies give us the relationship:

Let's transform the mix number into an improper fraction:

7 1/2 = 15/2 = 7.5 cups of pecans

Dividing this by the number of cookies:

(15/2)/168 = 5/112 = 0.04464

Answer: There are 0.04 cups of pecans in each cookie.