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Shawna works at a bakery. She is baking biscuits to fill an order for a customer. She has 2 3/4 cups of dough to make biscuits. She uses 3/16 of the dough for each biscuit. How many whole biscuits can she make?

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Answer:12

Explanation:

first i make it into a improper fraction which is 9/4, now i want to make the fraction into 16ths so i can dived it by 3/16, so now i do 16 dived by 4 which is 4 so now i need to do 9/4 times 4 which equals 36/16. now that u have the same denominators you will dived 36/16 by 3/16 and that will get u 12

User Lasaun
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Answer:

14 biscuits

Explanation:

Since Shawna uses 3/16 of the dough for each biscuit we just need to find how many 3/16ths are in our 2 3/4 cups of dough. To do this, you can just perform the calculation:


((11)/(4) )/((3)/(16) ) = 14.666667

or


(2.75)/(0.1875) = 14.666667 (The decimals are just the fractions in decimal form)

We don't have enough dough to round up to 15 biscuits, so we only have enough to make 14.

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