Francis is baking cookies. The recipe for chocolate chip cookies calls for 2 2/3 cups of flour, the recipe for peanut butter coolies calls for 2.75 cups, the recipe for ginger snaps calls for 5/2 cups. If francis wants to use as little flour as possible, which cookie whould he make? explain your reasoing

well,

2 2/3 = 2.66
2.75 = 2.75
5/2 = 2.50

So, which is least?

To determine which cookie Francis should make to use as little flour as possible, we need to compare the amounts of flour required for each recipe.

The first recipe for chocolate chip cookies calls for 2 2/3 cups of flour. To work with mixed numbers, we can convert 2 2/3 to an improper fraction: 8/3 cups.

The second recipe for peanut butter cookies calls for 2.75 cups of flour.

The third recipe for ginger snaps calls for 5/2 cups of flour. We can rewrite 5/2 as a decimal: 2.5 cups.

Now, we compare the three amounts of flour required for each recipe:

- 8/3 cups (chocolate chip cookies)
- 2.75 cups (peanut butter cookies)
- 2.5 cups (ginger snaps)

To compare these fractions and decimal, we need to convert them to a common form. We can convert 8/3 to a decimal by dividing 8 by 3, which equals 2.67 (rounded to two decimal places).

So, the comparisons become:

- 2.67 cups (chocolate chip cookies)
- 2.75 cups (peanut butter cookies)
- 2.5 cups (ginger snaps)

Comparing these amounts, we observe that the ginger snaps recipe requires the least amount of flour, 2.5 cups. Therefore, Francis should make ginger snaps if he wants to use as little flour as possible.