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One package of chocolate chips contains 5/4 cups of chips. A cookie recipe uses 1/2 cup of chocolate chips to make one batch of cookies. How many batches of cookies will 2 packages of chips make?

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Answer: 5 batches

Step-by-step explanation: 2 1/2, 1/2 fits into 2 four times eliminating the 2 in 2 1/2 so you just have 1/2 which can make one more batch of cookies. Which brings you to 5 batches of cookies.

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5 batches. Two batches of 5/4 would equal 10/4 which can be turned into
2 1/2, 1/2 fits into 2 four times eliminating the 2 in 2 1/2 so you just have 1/2 which can make one more batch of cookies. Which brings you to 5 batches of cookies.
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