To make a batch of cookies you need 3.25 cups of sugar, if you start off with 16.5 cups of sugar, how many batches of cookies can you make?
3.25 for one batch of cookie
16.5/3.25= ___ batches of cookies
5 1/13 batches, or would it just be 5 total?
To find out how many batches of cookies you can make, you can divide the total amount of sugar you have by the amount of sugar needed for each batch.
In this case, you have 16.5 cups of sugar and each batch requires 3.25 cups of sugar. To calculate the number of batches, you can divide the total amount of sugar by the amount needed per batch:
Number of batches = Total amount of sugar / Amount of sugar per batch
Number of batches = 16.5 cups / 3.25 cups
Using a calculator or doing the division manually, you will find that the number of batches is approximately 5.08.
However, since you can't make a fraction of a batch, you can only make a whole number of batches. Therefore, you can make a maximum of 5 batches of cookies with 16.5 cups of sugar.