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A recipe says to use 1.5 cups of flour to make 24 cookies. What is the constant of proportionality that relates the number of cookies made, y, to the number of cups of flour used, x?
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A recipe says to use 1.5 cups of flour to make 24 cookies. What is the constant of proportionality that relates the number of cookies made, y, to the number of cups of flour used, x?

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Answer: 16

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(24\ cookies)/(1.5\ cups\ flour)/(1.5)/(1.5)=(16\ cookies)/(1\ cup\ flour)=\large\boxed{16\ \text{cookies per cups of flour}}

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