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if you want to make 14 mini pies you nide 3/3 of butter but you have 2/3 of butter. how many mini pies cane you make

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With 2/3 of a cup of butter, you cannot make any mini pies as you have insufficient butter.

To determine the number of mini pies you can make with 2/3 of a cup of butter, divide the available butter (2/3 cup) by the butter required per pie (3/3 cup) to find the number of pies possible.

Number of pies = Available butter / Butter per pie

Number of pies = (2/3 cup) / (3/3 cup/pie)

Number of pies = 0.6666 pies

Since you cannot make a fraction of a pie, round down to the nearest whole number. Therefore, you can make 0 mini pies with 2/3 of a cup of butter.

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