Question

you are baking cookies. recipe 2 cup sugar
1-1/2 cup flour
2 eggs
a- you make one and one-half batches of cookies, how many eggs have you used?

Answer- 2 eggs

b- Each batch makes 24 cookies. you make x batches of cookies but eat 5 cookies as you are baking. Write an expression for the number of cookies you have.

Answer- X= 24-5 ....I got confused . please help me solving this problem..Thanks.

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