Question

Amanda is making white oatmeal cookies with raisins and pecans for her club.The recipe makes seventeen of the big,chewy kind of oatmeal cookies with lots of raisins and nuts.It takes one-fourth of a cup of nuts and one-half of a cup of raisins just for the seventeen cookies!There are thirty-four members in Amanda's club .If she makes exactly thirty-four cookies,how many cups of nuts will she need ?

Answer 1

1/2 cup of nuts

Explanation:

If it takes 1/4 cups of nuts to make 17 cookies

Then it takes 1/4 * 1/17 = 1/68 cups of nut to make 1 cookie

So,

If 1/68 cups of nut are needed to make 1 cookie

To make 34 cookies we need;

34 * 1/68 = 1/2 cup of nuts