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If a cookie recipe that makes 2 dozen cookies calls for 2 1/4 cups of flour, how cups of flour do you need to make 5 dozen cookies?

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Answer:

5. 5/8 flour needed to make 5 dozen cookies

Explanation:

2 dozen= 24

5 dozen=60

It takes 1 1/8 flour for 1 dozen cookies so 1 1/8 x 5= 5.625 in fraction form that= 5 5/8

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