Question

Anuja is baking cookies for her slumber party this weekend. She has one supersize package of Sugar Sprinkles and one supersize package of Chocolate Turtles. Both packages had to be mixed with flour, brown sugar, and water. The Sugar Sprinkles package contained a cup of the mix that needs to be mixed with cups of flour, cups of brown sugar, and cups of water. The directions indicate to use 0.1125 of a cup of dough to make one cookie and 1 batch should make a total of Sugar Sprinkles cookies. The Chocolate Turtle package contained 0.875 of a cup of the mix that needs to be mixed with 3.25 cups of flour, 2.5 cups of brown sugar, and 3.75 cups of water. The directions indicate to use of a cup of dough to make one cookie and 1 batch should make a total of Chocolate Turtle cookies. The difference in the number of cookies of each type is

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The Sugar Sprinkles package contained 3/4 of a cup of the mix that needs to be mixed with 2 2/5 cups of flour, 2 1/4 cups of brown sugar, 3 3/8 and cups of water. The directions indicate to use 0.1125 of a cup of dough to make one cookie and 1 batch should make a total of Sugar Sprinkles cookies.

The Chocolate Turtle package contained 0.875 of a cup of the mix that needs to be mixed with 3.25 cups of flour, 2.5 cups of brown sugar, and 3.75 cups of water. The directions indicate to use 1/8 of a cup of dough to make one cookie and 1 batch should make a total of Chocolate Turtle cookies. The difference in the number of cookies of each type is _____

Answer:

Difference in number of cookies is 1

Step-by-step explanation:

This question is quite a tricky one. You have to be careful when answering it.

For sugar sprinklers, it contains 3/4 of a cup of the dough. For every 0.1125 of a cup, 1 cookie can be made.

So, 3/4 ÷ 0.1125

= 0.75 ÷ 0.1125

= 6.66667

Hence the most can be made is 6.

Note that we do not use the other volume because 0.1125 cup of a dough is the amount of cup from the original mix

The same applies to chocolate turtle cookies. It contains 0.875 of a cup. For every 1/8 of a cup can make 1 cookie.

0.875 ÷ 1/8 = 7

So the difference in the number of cookies is 7 - 6 = 1