Question

It takes 2 cups of flour to make 24 cookies. How much flour will it take to make 60 cookies?​

Answer 1

5 cups

Explanation:

If 2 cups makes 24 cookies, then 1 cup makes 12 cookies. Since 12 times five is 60, 1 cup of flour filled five times makes 60 cookies so you will need 5 cups of flour.

Answer 2

5 cups of flour needed to make 60 cookies.

Explanation:

24 cookies → 2 cups of flour

1 cookies → (2/24) cups of flour

60 cookies → [(2/24)*60 ] cups of flour

60 cookies → 5 cups of flour needed