CPM Homework Help : CC2 Problem 9-36

Howie and Steve are making cookies for themselves and some friends. The recipe they are using will make $48$ cookies, but they only want to make $16$ cookies. They have no trouble reducing the amounts of flour and sugar, but the original recipe calls for $1\frac{3}{4}$ cups of butter. Help Howie and Steve determine how much butter they will need.

Hint:

Per $48$ cookies there needs to be $1\frac{3}{4}$ cups of butter.

Hint 2:

Set up a proportion.

More Help:

$\frac{48 \text{ cookies}}{1\frac{3}{4}\text{ cups of butter}}=\frac{16\text{ cookies}}{x\text{ cups of butter}}$

Solve for $x$ .

Answer:

$\frac{7}{12}$ of a cup