You have to bake a lot of brownies for your 6th grade fund raiser! Although you have plenty
of flour, cocoa, milk, and oil, you only have 8 1/2
sticks of butter. You need to know how many
batches you can make, based upon your limited amount of butter. You can cook partial
batches to use up every bit of butter and make the most brownies possible. Each batch needs
3/4
of a stick of butter.
How many batches of brownies can you bake? Justify your answer using equations,
models, and/or words to explain your mathematical reasoning.