Question

Theo wants to use a cookie recipe that makes 36 cookies but he wants to reduce the number of cookies to 24. If the recipe specifies using 2 cups of sugar, how much sugar should he use?

Answer 1

He should use 1 1/3 cup of sugar to bake 24 cookies.

24/36 can be simplified into 2/3

Multiply 2/3 to 2 cups to get its corresponding measurement used to bake 24 cookies.

Steps in multiplication: 2/3 * 2/1

Step 1. Multiply the numerators
2 * 2 = 4

Step 2. Multiply the denominators
3 * 1 = 3

Step 3. Simplify the fractions.
4/3 = 1 1/3