Question

20. lan used 9½ cups of flour to make 1 batches of oatmeal cookies. One batch makes 18

cookies. If he follows the same recipe, about how many cookies can he make with 15 cups of
flour?

Answer 1

To solve this problem, we can set up a proportion:

9.5 cups of flour / 18 cookies = 15 cups of flour / x cookies

To solve for x, we can cross-multiply:

9.5 cups of flour * x cookies = 18 cookies * 15 cups of flour

Dividing both sides by 9.5 cups of flour gives us:

x cookies = 18 cookies * 15 cups of flour / 9.5 cups of flour

x cookies ≈ 28.42

Since we can't make a fraction of a cookie, we'll round down to the nearest whole number. Therefore, Lan can make about 28 cookies with 15 cups of flour using the same recipe.