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Devonna and Jerry are making cookies for a bake sale at their daughters’ school. They decide...

Devonna and Jerry are making cookies for a bake sale at their daughters’ school. They decide to make chocolate chip cookies and iced sugar cookies. Respond to the following questions (make sure the final answers are proper fractions or mixed numbers and include the correct unit for each item).

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Question 1

Davonna is going to mix up five times a single recipe of chocolate chip cookies. The recipe calls for:

1/2 c butter
1 c sugar
2 eggs
1 1/2 tsp vanilla
1 1/4 c flour
2 1/4 tsp salt
2 1/2 tsp baking soda
1 3/4 c chocolate chips

Calculate the total of each ingredient that Davonna needs for all her cookies.

Ingredient	Final Answer with Units (put a space between the number and the fraction if a mixed fraction is used)
Butter
Sugar
Eggs
Vanilla
Flour
Salt
Baking Soda
Chocolate Chips

Question 2

Jerry is going to mix up 2 1/2 times a single recipe of sugar cookies. The recipe calls for:

2 1/4 c flour
3/4 c sugar
1/4 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1 1/4 c butter
2 eggs
1 1/2 tsp vanilla

Calculate the total of each ingredient that Jerry needs for all her cookies.

Ingredients	Answer with Units (put a space between number and fraction for mixed fractions)
Flour
Sugar
Baking Powder
Salt
Butter
Eggs
Vanilla

Question 3

Latisha also needs to make icing for her cookies. She decides to cut the recipe in 1/2. The recipe calls for:

2 egg whites
1/2 c sugar
1/8 tsp salt
1 1/2 tsp vanilla

Ingredients	Answer with Units (put a space between number and fraction for mixed fractions)
egg whites
sugar
salt
vanilla

Calculate the total of each ingredient that Latisha needs for her icing.

Question 4

Make a shopping list that includes the total ingredients necessary for Davonna and Latisha’s cookies.

Davonna needs:

2 ½ c butter
5 c sugar
10 eggs
7 1/2 tsp vanilla
6 1/4 c flour
11 1/4 tsp salt
12 1/2 tsp baking soda
8 3/4 c chocolate chips

Latisha needs for the cookies:

5 5/8 c flour
1 7/8 c sugar
5/8 tsp baking powder
1 1/4 tsp salt
3 1/8 c butter
5 eggs
3 3/4 tsp vanilla

Latisha needs for the frosting:

1 egg white
1/4 c sugar
1/16 tsp salt
3/4 tsp vanilla

Ingredient	Amount to buy at the store
vanilla
flour
sugar
baking powder
salt
butter
eggs
baking soda
chocolate chips

Question 5

A bag of chocolate chips contains 2 c of chips.

How many bags does Davonna need? bags
How much will be left over? c

Question 6

One pound of butter is 2 cups.

How many pounds of butter do the two women need for their cookies (they will need 5 5/8 c butter)? lbs
How many cups will be left over? c

Expert Solution

Colby Messinger answered 2 years ago

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