Sam and Janet are using two diffrent recipes to make choclate chip cookies. Sam recipe calls for 1 1/2 cups of choclate chips for every 3 dozen cookies. janets recipe calls for 2 1/2 cups of choclate chips for every 5 dozen cookies. Whose cookies are more "choclate chippy"

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Answer:

Their cookies are the same "chocolate chippy"

Step-by-step explanation:

Find the amount of chocolate chips per dozen of cookies.

Sam:

Sam recipe calls for 1 1/2 cups of choclate chips for every 3 dozen cookies. Then

[tex]1\dfrac{1}{2}\div 3=\dfrac{3}{2}\div 3=\dfrac{3}{2}\times \dfrac{1}{3}=\dfrac{1}{2}[/tex]

cup of chocolate chips per dozen.

Janet:

Janet recipe calls for 2 1/2 cups of choclate chips for every 5 dozen cookies, then

[tex]2\dfrac{1}{2}\div 5=\dfrac{5}{2}\div 5=\dfrac{5}{2}\times \dfrac{1}{5}=\dfrac{1}{2}[/tex]

cup of chocolate chips per dozen.

Their cookies are the same "chocolate chippy"