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) About Me  (Show Source):
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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