First of all this doesn't seem like a college question but- kay- the answer is 17 and a half cups of raisins.
Step-by-step explanation:
First of all, we need to find how many cookies are in each batch. A dozen is 12, meaning that we do 8 times 12 to see how many cookies are in each batch. 8 times 12 equals 96. This means that Fraction Cafe only makes 1 batch of cookies a day. This makes the following question simple, all we need to do is multiply how many cups of raisins it takes to make one batch, which is 2 and one half, and multiply that by 7 because there are 7 days in a week. First I converted the fration into a decimal making the number 2.5 then, I used long multiplication and moved the decimal from the 2.5 over the the right 1 place. This now makes it 25 times 7. If you know your money values, you could just count 7 quarters because quarters are 25 cents (assuming you use a currency with quarters). 7 quarters are equal to $1.75 or in our case, just 175. But we're not done yet. Remember that decimal point that we moved out of the way? We have to move it back now, meaning that since we moved the decimal 1 place to the right, we have to move it 1 spot to the left making the answer 17.5, or 17 and one half.
