Question

a cookie recipe calls for 3 eggs for every thousand cookies . How many eggs would be needed for 60 dozen cookies . How many eggs will be made with 12 eggs

Answer 1

There are a total of

`60(12)=720`

cookies in 60 dozen eggs. WE can find out how many eggs we need by the rule of three:

`\begin{gathered} 3\rightarrow1000 \\ x\rightarrow720 \end{gathered}`

Then we need:

`\begin{gathered} x=(720\cdot3)/(1000) \\ =(2160)/(1000) \\ =(216)/(100) \\ =(108)/(50) \\ =(54)/(25) \\ =2.16 \end{gathered}`

Therefore, we need 2.16 eggs for 60 dozen cookies.

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