a recipe for 50 banana cookies uses 1 1/2 pounds of bananas. How many pounds of bananas would you need if you wanted to make 75 banana cookies?
1 1/2 divided by 50 and I looked at a measuring and came up with 2 1/4 but don't know how to show how I got that
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To calculate how many pounds of bananas you would need to make 75 banana cookies, you can use the ratio obtained from the given recipe.
The ratio from the recipe is: 1 1/2 pounds of bananas / 50 cookies.
To find out how many pounds of bananas you need for 75 cookies, you can set up a proportion:
(1 1/2 pounds) / (50 cookies) = (x pounds) / (75 cookies)
To solve for x, you can cross-multiply and then divide:
(1 1/2) * (75) = (50) * (x)
(3/2) * (75) = (50) * (x)
225 / 2 = 50x
225 = 100x
x = 225 / 100
x = 2.25 pounds
Therefore, you would need 2.25 pounds of bananas to make 75 banana cookies.