SOLUTION: The recipe requires 1/8 sugar to make 15 cookies. If i want to make 22 cookies, how much sugar do i need?
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Question 328875: The recipe requires 1/8 sugar to make 15 cookies. If i want to make 22 cookies, how much sugar do i need?
Answer by solver91311(24713) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
The very best way to solve this problem is to simply double the sugar (and everything else in the recipe) and make 30 cookies. Then eat 8 of them.
However, the likelihood of your teacher/instructor/professor accepting such an answer being as slim as it is, proceed thus:
Create a proportion:
Cross-multiply and solve for 
John
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