Question

- You find a recipe for cookies. You want

to know how much sugar is in each cookie.
The recipe uses 3/4 cup of sugar and makes
one-dozen cookies. Find the amount of sugar
per cookie. Show unit rate work. Use fractions
not decimals.

Answer 1

1/16

Explanation:

recipe uses 3/4 cup of sugar for one dozen cookies

3/4 cup ------ 12 cookies

x ------- 1 cookie

x * 12 = 3/4

x = 3/4 / 12

x = 3 / (4*12)

x = 1 / 4*4

x = 1/16

Answer 2

1/16

Explanation:

3/4 ÷ 12

3/4 x 1/12

3/48 or 1/16

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