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Corey has 16 cups of flour to make cookies. one batch of cookies takes 2.5 cups of flour. if he must save 6 cups of flour for other baking, write and solve and solve an inequality to determine how many batches of cookies he can make. Interpret the solution.

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since 1 batch is 2.5 cups and he needs to save 6.. what you'll do is subtract 16-6. The. You create a proportion.. You cross multiply then divide..
Corey has 16 cups of flour to make cookies. one batch of cookies takes 2.5 cups of-example-1
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