SOLUTION: You have 10 cups of sugar. Your cookie recipe calls for 1¼ of sugar for one batch. What is the greatest number of batches of cookies you could make with the sugar that you have?
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Question 466612: You have 10 cups of sugar. Your cookie recipe calls for 1¼ of sugar for one batch. What is the greatest number of batches of cookies you could make with the sugar that you have?
Answer by rfer(16322) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
10/1.25=8 batches
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