You're planning to supply cookies for a staff party. You're thinking of purchasing platters and cookies containing 80 sugar cookies and 15 chocolate chip cookies. what…

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GlyphGryph · Answer 1 · 2023-12-03T11:21:09+0000

We have the following:

To calculate the proportion, we must calculate the quotient between sugar cookies and chocolate chip cookies, as follows

$(80)/(15)=(16\cdot5)/(3\cdot5)=(16)/(3)$

Which means that for every 3 chocolate chip cookies there are 16 sugar cookies.