part 2
Fred bakes 10 dozen cookies for the bake sale. He makes the following types of cookies:
. 1/2 chocolate chip
. 1/4 peanut butter
. 1/8 sugar cookies
. 1/8 oatmeal raisin cookies
4. How many of each type of cookie did Fred make? Show your work.
Chocolate chip_________
Peanut Butter _______
Sugar cookies ________
Oatmeal raisin_______
5. Unfortunately, Fred had some trouble in the kitchen and 3/5 of the peanut butter cookies were burned.
a. How many peanut butter cookies does Fred have left to sell? _____
b. Explain how you know this is correct.
ANSWERS
2016-04-11 04:03:56
1 dozen= 12 12*10= 120 cookies chocolate chip is 1/2 1/2 of 120 is 60 60 chocolate chip cookies Peanut Butter is 1/4 (or half of 1/2) 1/2=60 so that means 1/4=30 30 PB cookies Sugar and oatmeal raisin are both 1/8 (half of 1/4) 1/4= 30 so that means 1/8=15 15 Sugar Cookies 15 Oatmeal Raisin 3/5 of PB were burned Original PB was 30 3/5 of 30 is 18 18 cookies were burnt 30-18=12 (which were salvaged) 12 PB cookies remain Hope this helps
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