Sarah is baking cookies to put a package is for a Fund raiser. She has made 26 chocolate chip cookies and 42 sugar cookies. She
wants soup three identical packages of cookies to sell and that Matthews our cookifund raiser. She has May 26 chocolate chip cookies and 42 sugar cookies. She wants soup three identical packages of cookies to sell and must use all cookies. What is the greatest number of identical packages that Sarah can make
may i please get brainlyest She can make 42 identical packages which contains 2 chocolate chip cookies and 1 sugar cookies.
86 / 2 = 43 chocolate chips cookies
42 / 1 = 42 sugar cookies
Though the chocolate chip cookies can make 43 packs, the sugar cookies cannot fulfill the extra pack for it only has 42 pieces. That is why the maximum number of package that has identical content is 42 packages.
The 6 in the hundreds place tells you the quotient is at least 100. The non-zero digits in the 1s and 10s places tell you the quotient is more than 100.
