Question

A recipe for a dozen iced cookies calls for 2 1/4 cups flour. Which can be used to determine the amount of flour needed to make 32 cookies?

Answer 1

You can form a proportion to solve this problem.

Explanation:

The proportion can look like this (there are other ways to write an equal proportion but this is just one of the ways you could go about it :)

=

12x=72

x=6 cups of flour

Answer 2

You can form a proportion to solve this problem.

Explanation:

The proportion can look like this (there are other ways to write an equal proportion but this is just one of the ways you could go about it :)

`(2.25)/(12)`=
`(x)/(32)`

12x=72

x=6 cups of flour

Hope this helps!! :)