Question

You need 3 sticks of butter for every 24 giant cookies you bake.

Answer 1

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Explanation:

Given

• You need 3 sticks of butter for every 24 cookies

Base rate

• no. of butter sticks / no. of cookies
• 3 / 24
• 1 stick of butter for every 8 cookies

16 cookies

• No. of sticks = 16/8
• No. of butter sticks = 2

5 butter sticks

• No. of cookies = 8 x 5
• No. of cookies = 40

Answer 2

Sticks of butter : 2

Number of cookies : 40

Explanation:

Given that :You need 3 sticks of butter for every 24 giant cookies you bake.

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Sticks of butter Number of cookies

3 24

x 16

5 y

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Let the unknown be x and y..

Since you need 3 sticks of butter for every 24 giant cookies you back

Then 24/3 = 8

Since the number of cookies is 16 then 16/8 = 2

Thus x = 2

Next for y.

Since you need 3 sticks of butter for every 24 giant cookies you back

Then 5 * 8 = 40

Thus, y = 40

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Completed table below:

Sticks of butter Number of cookies

3 24

2 16

5 40

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