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You are baking batches of cookies for a bake sale. Each batch takes 2.5 cups of flour. You have 18 cups of flour. Can you bake 8 batches? Explain.

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18 cups ÷ 2.5 cups for each batch = 7.2 batches so its only enough for 7 batches (the .2 isnt really important) not 8
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