If a recipe calls for 3 cups of flour and 1 and 2/3 cups of sugar to make two dozen cookies, how many cookies can be made if you have 8 cups of flour and 5 cups of sugar?

72 cookies

Step-by-step explanation:

so we are multiplying by 3 ( i think you meant to put 9 cups of flour instead of 8), but if we multiply 3×3 we get 9 total. if we multiply 1 ⅔× 3 we get 5 total cups of sugar. So what we need to do is multiply the original problem, which would be 2 dozen (24 cookies), and multiply that by 3. so 24× 3 which is a total of 72 cookies.