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Maria has 12 bags of chocolate chips in her pantry. A batch of cupcakes requires og legs of chocolate chips, and a batch of cookies requires or bags

chocolate chips. If none of the chocolate chips are wasted and she makes 8 complete batches of cookies, what is the maximum number of complete
batches of cupcakes that she can make?

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Answer:

10

Explanation:

Maria has 12 bags of chocolate chips, and each batch of cookies requires 1/2 bag of chocolate chips, and she makes 8 complete batches of cookies. So we can calculate the number of bags of chocolate chips used by:

1/2 * 8 = 4 bags

The number of bags of chocolate chips left after making the cookies is:

12 - 4 = 8 bags

A batch of cupcakes requires 3/4 of a bag of chocolate chips, and Maria has 8 bags of chocolate chips left. So we can calculate the maximum number of complete batches of cupcakes that she can make by:

8 / (3/4) = 8 * (4/3) = 32/3 = 10.67

Maria can make a maximum of 10 complete batches of cupcakes. Since a batch of cupcakes cannot be fractional, it means Maria can't make any more cupcakes after using all the chocolate chips.

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