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.