David and Jake are making cookies. They each get 2 rolls of cookie dough and they are cutting up their rolls with cookie cutters before David's mother places the cookies in the oven. David's cookie cutter cuts 1 roll into 1 8 18 segments and Jake's cookie cutter cuts 1 roll of dough into 1 7 17 segments. Who will have the most cookies, and how many more cookies will that person have?

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Shea Moyer

Mathematics

27 November, 12:05

David and Jake are making cookies. They each get 2 rolls of cookie dough and they are cutting up their rolls with cookie cutters before David's mother places the cookies in the oven. David's cookie cutter cuts 1 roll into 1 8 18 segments and Jake's cookie cutter cuts 1 roll of dough into 1 7 17 segments. Who will have the most cookies, and how many more cookies will that person have?

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Bryan Brewer · Answer 1

David will have the most cookies and he will have two cookies more than Jake

Step-by-step explanation:

1. Let's calculate how many cookies will David cut with his cutter, this way:

Number of cookies = Rolls of cookie dough/Size of the segment

Replacing with the values we know:

Number of cookies = 2 / (1/8)

Number of cookies = 16

2. Let's calculate how many cookies will Jake cut with his cutter, this way:

Number of cookies = Rolls of cookie dough/Size of the segment

Replacing with the values we know:

Number of cookies = 2 / (1/7)

Number of cookies = 14

David will have the most cookies and he will have two cookies more than Jake.