Question

Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe: 1 cup of flour 100 chocolate chips 1 cup sugar 1/2 cup milk Yields 10 cookies You and your sister want to bake chocolate chip cookies. You go to the store and buy 5 cups of flour, three bags of chips, each containing 100 chocolate chips, 6 cups of sugar, and a half gallon of milk. You want to make as many cookies as possible. What is your limiting reactant, the ingredient that would run out first?

Answer 1

The limiting reactant is the chocolate chips (they would run out first) because you can only make 3 batches with 300 chips.