Question

Baking You are baking cookies that require 6 cups of cereal for each batch. Use the nutrition facts below to find the number of boxes of cereal you will need to make 3 batches of cookies. Then determine how many cookies you can make.

Short answer

$1.2$ boxes of cereal are needed and 12 cookies can be made.

Step-by-step solution

Step-1 – Apply the concept of quotient

When a number is divided by another number, it gives a resulting number. The number, that is divided is called dividend. The number, by which the dividend is divided is called divisor. And the resulting number found by division is known as quotient.

Step-2 – Given

No of batches of cookies to be made is 3.

No of cups of cereal needed for each batch is 6.

There are 1.5 cups of cereal in each serving.

There are 10 servings per package.

Step-3 – Explanation

The number of cups of cereal needed to make 3 batches of cookies $=3\times 6=18$ cups.

Number of cups of cereal in each box(package) $=10\times 1.5=15$cups.

Therefore, the total number of boxes of cereal needed to make 3 batches of cereal is$\frac{18}{15}=\mathbf{1}\mathbf{.}\mathbf{2}$boxes.

Number of cookies in each batch $=\frac{6}{1.5}=4$cookies.

Therefore, the total number of cookies in 3 batches $=3\times 4=\mathbf{12}$cookies.