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Scarlett made seven dozen sugar cookies. She needs 138 cookies for the cookie exchange. How many more cookies does she still need to make?

I suck at math :/ but like my math teacher never did teach us ​

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Answer:

54 cookies

Explanation:

seven dozen means 7 * 12 cookies

because one dozen = 12 cookies, so having seven dozen means have seven, one dozen batches

seven dozen = 7*12 = 84 cookies

she already made 138

138 - 84 cookies = 54 cookies left to go

54 cookies

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