Question

The local bakery uses 1.75 cups of flour in each batch of cookies. The bakery used 5.25 cups of flour this morning. If there are 5 dozen cookies in each batch how many cookies did the bakery make?

Answer 1

Answer: 180 cookies

Step-by-step explanation: If 1.75 cups of flour is required to make a batch and the bakery used 5.25, the bakery made 3 batches, since 1.75(3) is 5.25. One dozen is 12 cookies, and there are 5 dozen cookies in each batch. If there are 3 batches, then there are 15 dozens of cookies. 15(12) is 180.