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Corey has 16 cups of flour to make cookies. One batch of cookies takes 2 1/2 cups of flour. If he must save 6 cups of flour for other baking, write and solve an inequality to find out how many batches of cookies he can make. Interpret the solution.

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User Etse
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16-6=10
2.5x=10
Divide by 2.5
X=4
So Corey can make 4 batches of cookies
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User Matt Caton
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