Homework quetion from Detroit Enterprise Academy student

Question

There are 546 people attending a charity event. You are baking cookies to give away. Each batch makes 48 cookies. Estimate the number of batches you need to make so that each person gets one cookie.

 

Answer 1

Hi Jessica from Detroit...hope you had a great day at school.

Great question...I'm going to get you started with answering this question, however I won't give you the answer,

 

To begin with, make sure you understand what you are trying to find or what the problem asks. Which is?

How many cookies will you need to bake 546 cookies when you can only back 48 at a time...Right??

 

Hint: how many times can 48 groups of cookies be found in a total of 546 cookies.

 

Keep in mine...you have to bake enough to have 546 cookies...I hope they are M&Ms chocolate chip...

 

Okay...there you go...you have the tools...if you are still having some problems understanding or continuing with answering this, let me know and I can assist you

 

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Answer 2

This problem calls for division. Divide the total number of people attending the charity event (546) by the amount of cookies each batch makes (48). The key is that everyone must get at least 1 cookie, therefore we must round our answer up, to the nearest whole number.

 

546 ÷ 48 = 11.375 (or ≅ 12)

 

Next we round our quotient up to the nearest whole number (12)

 

You will need to make 12 batches of cookies.

Answer 3

48 ≈ 50

546 ≈ 550

 

550 / 50 = ?