Question

Ms. Wang and her class are selling bags of cookies to raise money for a field trip.

Each bag weighs 140 grams and has 6 cookies.
Each cookie has the same amount of dough that weighs 14 grams.
Each cookie has the same amount of candy
If a bag of candy has 20 grams of Candy, how many bags of candy does the class need to make 18 cookies?

Answer 1

9 bags of candy

Explanation:

6 cookies at 14 grams each = 84 grams meaning the remaining grams of the 140 have to be the weight of the candy which = 56 grams (140-84). To find out how much candy is in one cookie divide 56 by 6 which = 9.33333. You then divide 20 by 9.3333 which = 2.14 (rounded to nearest 10th). Since you can get just over 2 cookies worth of candy per bag you only need half the number of cookies in bags of candy (9 bags)