Question

If you have 16 cups of sugar , 2 cups of sugar for every batch of cookies , but you have to save 6 cups of sugar for something else . How many batches of cookies can you make?

Answer 1

The first step we want to take here is to subtract 6 cups of sugar since we'll need it for something else, leaving us with 10 cups of sugar. It takes 2 cups of sugar for every batch of cookies, so you're going to divide 10 by 2. Luckily, 2 is a multiple of 10 so it's a whole number. By dividing, we get 5. So, we can make 5 batches of cookies while still saving 6 cups of sugar for something else.