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You need 3 sticks of butter for every 24 cookies you bake. If you use 5 sticks of butter, how many cookies do you bake

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40

If 3 sticks makes 24 cookies then:

24/3 gives cookies per stick being 8

8/1 = x/5
40 = x
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The answer is2 sticks
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