A cookie recipe calls for 3/4 of a cup of flour and makes 2dozen cookies. How many cookies can Julia make if she has 12cups of flour and wants to use it all

Answer :

Given that 3/4 of a cup of flour is used to cook 2 dozen cookies,

[tex]\frac{3}{4}\text{ cup of flour}\equiv2\text{ dozen cookies}[/tex]

Consider the conversion,

[tex]1\text{ dozen}=12\text{ units}[/tex]

So it follows that,

[tex]\frac{3}{4}\text{ cup of flour}\equiv2\cdot12=24\text{ cookies}[/tex]

Multiply both sides by 4/3 as follows,

[tex]\begin{gathered} \frac{3}{4}\cdot\frac{4}{3}\text{ cups of flour}\equiv24\cdot\frac{4}{3}\text{ cookies} \\ 1\text{ cup of flour}\equiv32\text{ cookies} \end{gathered}[/tex]

So, 32 cookies can be cooked using 1 cup pf flour.

Given that Julia has 12 cups of flour, so the number of cookies that she can cook, is calculated as,

[tex]12\text{ cups of flour}\equiv32\cdot12=384\text{ cookies.}[/tex]

Thus, Julia can make 384 cookies if she uses 12 cups of flour.

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