Question

a recipe requires 1/2 cup of flour for every batch of cookies how many full batches of cookies can be made with 5 1/2 cups of flour

Answer 1

You're answer would be 11 batches :)

Answer 2

Hello There!

You want to know how many cookies can be made using 5 1/2 cups of flour.

                                             
                                                            $Solving$
 
                                                      1 x 2                2
                                                  --------------  =     ----- 
                                                      2 x 11             22

                                             2/22 simplified is 1/11

                         
              So, You can make 11 cookies with 5 1/2 cups of flour.

Hope this helped!