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Carol has 10 cups of sugar to make 7 dozen cookies. If she only had 6 cups of sugar, how many cookies could she make ?

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10/7 = 6/x cross multiply to solve for x

x=4.2 dozen cookies

4.2 dozen cookies * 12 cookies/dozen= 50.4 cookies


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