Question

A recipe for chocolate chip cookies mixes 5 1/2 cups of cookie dough with 3/4 cup of chocolate chips to make 48 cookies. A baker has 3 cups of chocolate chips in the pantry and uses them all to make cookies using the proportions of the recipe.
How many cups of cookie dough does the baker use?


A. 12 3/8 cups

B. 16 1/2 cups

C. 21 cups

D. 22 cups

Answer 1

Answer:

He makes 4 batches of cookies with all of the chocolate chips so he will use 4 times the amount of batter in 1 batch so you would do 5 1/2 times 4 which eqauls 22 so he will use 22 cups of cookie dough.

So your answer is D. 22 cups

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