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At Central Middle School the 108108 students who take the AMC 8 meet in the evening to talk about problems and eat an average of two cookies apiece. Walter and Gretel are baking Bonnie's Best Bar Cookies this year. Their recipe, which makes a pan of 1515 cookies, list these items: •\bullet 1121\frac{1}{2} cups of flour •\bullet 22 eggs •\bullet 33 tablespoons butter •\bullet 34\frac{3}{4} cups sugar •\bullet 11 package of chocolate drops. They will make only full recipes, no partial recipes. Walter and Gretel must make enough pans of cookies to supply 216216 cookies. There are 88 tablespoons in a stick of butter. How many sticks of butter will be needed? (Some butter may be left over, of course.)
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At Central Middle School the 108 students who take the AMC 8 meet in the evening to talk about problems and eat an average of two cookies apiece. Walter and Gretel are baking Bonnie's Best Bar Cookies this year. Their recipe, which makes a pan of 15 cookies, list these items:

• 1(1)/(2) cups of flour

• 2 eggs

• 3 tablespoons butter

• (3)/(4) cups sugar

• 1 package of chocolate drops.

They will make only full recipes, no partial recipes.

Walter and Gretel must make enough pans of cookies to supply 216 cookies. There are 8 tablespoons in a stick of butter. How many sticks of butter will be needed? (Some butter may be left over, of course.)
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At Central Middle School the $108$ students who take the AMC 8 meet in the evening to talk about problems and eat an average of two cookies apiece. Walter and Gretel are baking Bonnie's Best Bar Cookies this year. Their recipe, which makes a pan of $15$ cookies, list these items:

$\bullet$ $1\frac{1}{2}$ cups of flour

$\bullet$ $2$ eggs

$\bullet$ $3$ tablespoons butter

$\bullet$ $\frac{3}{4}$ cups sugar

$\bullet$ $1$ package of chocolate drops.

They will make only full recipes, no partial recipes.

Walter and Gretel must make enough pans of cookies to supply $216$ cookies. There are $8$ tablespoons in a stick of butter. How many sticks of butter will be needed? (Some butter may be left over, of course.)

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Level 3

type

Algebra

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