Question

A cookie recipe for 12 cookies calls for 4 cups of flour. How much flour is needed to make 90 cookies?

Answer 1

30 cups of flower is the answer

Answer 2

30 cups of flour

Explanation:

For every 12 cookies you need 4 cups of flour, which represents 1 batch of cookies. You want to figure out how many batches there are in 90 cookies. To do this you divide the total amount of cookies by the number of cookies in a batch.

90 cookies total/12 cookies/batch = 7.5 batches of cookies.

For each batch you need 4 cups of flour so you multiple the number of batches by the number of cups of flour.

7.5 batchs * 4 cups/batch = 30 cups of flour

so you need 30 cups of flour to make 90 cookies