Heather and Nicholas are baking cookies for a charity bake sale. First they bake gingersnaps, which are Heather's favorite cookie. Then they bake 96 chocolate crinkles, which are Nicholas' favorite. In all, Heather and Nicholas bake 132 cookies.
Use an equation to find the number of gingersnaps Heather and Nicholas bake.
Let's represent the number of gingersnaps Heather bakes as "H" and the number of chocolate crinkles Nicholas bakes as "N".
Given that Heather and Nicholas bake a total of 132 cookies, we can write the equation:
H + N = 132
We also know from the information given in the problem that Heather bakes gingersnaps (H) and Nicholas bakes chocolate crinkles (N). In this case, since it is stated that Heather is baking her favorite cookies (gingersnaps) and Nicholas is baking his favorite cookies (chocolate crinkles), the number of gingersnaps Heather bakes (H) must be Heather's favorite cookie.
So the answer to the problem is that Heather and Nicholas bake H gingersnaps.