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Uncle Bruce is baking chocolate chip cookies. He has 36 ounces of dough (with no chocolate) and 15 ounces of chocolate.

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Uncle Bruce is baking chocolate chip cookies. He has 36 ounces of dough (with no chocolate) and 15 ounces of chocolate. How much chocolate is left over if he uses all the dough but only wants the cookies to consist of 20% chocolate?

(A) 3
(B) 6
(C) 7.2
(D) 7.8
(E) 9


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Re: Uncle Bruce is baking chocolate chip cookies. He has 36 ounces of dough (with no chocolate) and 15 ounces of chocola

by Brent@GMATPrepNow » Thu Mar 11, 2021 10:48 am
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Wed Mar 10, 2021 9:06 pm
 Uncle Bruce is baking chocolate chip cookies. He has 36 ounces of dough (with no chocolate) and 15 ounces of chocolate. How much chocolate is left over if he uses all the dough but only wants the cookies to consist of 20% chocolate?

(A) 3
(B) 6
(C) 7.2
(D) 7.8
(E) 9


OA B

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We can use equivalent ratios.

The cookies will consist of 20% chocolate.
In other words, the cookies will consist of 1/5 chocolate.
We can also say the cookies will consist of 4/5 dough.

This means the cookies are 4 parts dough and 1 part chocolate.
So, the dough to chocolate ratio = 4/1

We have 36 ounces of dough available.
Let c = the number of ounces of chocolate needed.

We now can use equivalent ratios to set up the equation: 4/1 = 36/c
Solve to get c = 9

So, we need to USE 9 ounces of chocolate, which leaves us with 6 ounces REMAINING.

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