a cookie recipe calls for 3 eggs for every thousand cookies . How many eggs would be needed for 60 dozen cookies . How many eggs will be made with 12 eggs

Answer :

There are a total of

[tex]60(12)=720[/tex]

cookies in 60 dozen eggs. WE can find out how many eggs we need by the rule of three:

[tex]\begin{gathered} 3\rightarrow1000 \\ x\rightarrow720 \end{gathered}[/tex]

Then we need:

[tex]\begin{gathered} x=\frac{720\cdot3}{1000} \\ =\frac{2160}{1000} \\ =\frac{216}{100} \\ =\frac{108}{50} \\ =\frac{54}{25} \\ =2.16 \end{gathered}[/tex]

Therefore, we need 2.16 eggs for 60 dozen cookies.

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