Question

Kiera baked 30 Oatmeal cookies and 48 chocolate chip cookies to package in plastic containers for her teacher friends at school. She wants to divide the cookies into identical containers so that each container has the same number of each kind of cookie. Is she wants each container to have the greatest number of cookies possible, how many plastic containers does she need? Show and explain all steps in your problem-solving process.

Answer 1

First of all you have to figure out what she needed to make the cookies, water, vanilla extract, flour, sugar, baking powder, brown sugar and baking soda. You then can determine what you need if you know how many you are cooking for.