Question

Amber is making cookies. The recipe says 3 3/4 cups of flour are needed for each batch. Amber wants to make 3 batches of cookies. How many cups of flour will Amber use? write your answer as a simplified mixed number.

Answer 1

`\begin{gathered} 3\frac{3}{4\text{ }}\text{ cups of flour is needed for each batch } \\ 1\text{ batch = 3}(3)/(4)\text{ cups of flour } \\ 3\text{ batches =?} \\ \text{cross multiply} \\ \text{cups of flour for 3 batches = 3}(3)/(4)*3=(15)/(4)*3=(45)/(4)=11(1)/(4) \end{gathered}`