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1. Maritza is baking cookies to bring to school and share with her friends on her birthday. The recipe requires eggs for every cups of sugar. To have enough cookies for all of her friends, Maritza determined she would need

eggs. If her mom bought cups of sugar, does Maritza have enough sugar to make the cookies? Why or why not?

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first we need to know how many kids how much eggs and sugar to answer this sorry
User Fahim Parkar
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Answer:

Maritza has not enough sugar to make the cookies.

Explanation:

Missing data

The recipe requires 3 eggs for every 2 cups of sugar.

Maritza determined she would need 12 eggs.

Her mom bought 6 cups of sugar.

Writing data as a proportion gives

(3 eggs)/(2 cups of sugar) = (12 eggs)/(x cups of sugar)

Omitting units

3/2 = 12/x

Multiplying by x in both sides

3/2 *x = 12

Dividing by 3 and multiplying by 2 on both sides

x = 12*2/3

x = 8 cups of sugar

So, 6 cups are not enough.

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