Question

Amar is making giant holiday cookies for his friends at school. He makes each cookie with 6 oz of cookie dough and decorates them with macadamia nuts. If Amar has 5 lbs of cookie dough (1 lb 16 oz) and 60 macadamia nuts calculate the following How many (full) cookies he can make?

Answer 1

Answer:

$13\frac{1}{3}\ cookies$

Step-by-step explanation:

we know that

Amar makes each cookie with 6 oz of cookie dough

we have

5 lb of cookie dough

Convert to ounces

1 lb=16 oz

so

5 lb=5*16=80 oz

Using proportion

Let

x ------> the number of cookies

$\frac{1}{6}\frac{cookie}{oz}=\frac{x}{80}\frac{cookies}{oz}\\\\x=80/6\\ \\x=13.33\ cookies$

Convert to mixed number

$13.33=13\frac{1}{3}\ cookies$

therefore

He can make $13\frac{1}{3}\ cookies$