Question

A cookie recipe calls for (5)/(4) of a cup of white sugar and makes 3 dozen cookies. If you have 25 cups of white sugar, how many cookies can make if you use all your white sugar?

Answer 1

You can make 15 dozen cookies using all your white sugar.

Step-by-step explanation:

To find the number of cookies you can make using all your white sugar, you need to set up a proportion. Since the recipe calls for (5)/(4) of a cup of white sugar to make 3 dozen cookies, you can set up the proportion:

(5/4) cup sugar / 3 dozen cookies = 25 cups sugar / x dozen cookies

Now, cross-multiply and solve for x

Therefore, you can make 15 dozen cookies using all your white sugar.