9. You are baking batches of cookies for a bake sale. Each batch takes 2.5 cups of flour. You have 18 cups of flour. Can you bake 18 batches? Explain.
Answer
Final Answer: No, we can't bake 18 batches of cookies with 18 cups of flour. We can only bake \(\boxed{7}\) batches.
Step 1 ：The problem is asking if we can bake 18 batches of cookies with 18 cups of flour, given that each batch requires 2.5 cups of flour.
Step 2 ：To answer this, we need to calculate how many batches we can bake with 18 cups of flour.
Step 3 ：We can do this by dividing the total amount of flour by the amount of flour required for each batch: \(\frac{18}{2.5} = 7.2\)
Step 4 ：We can't bake a fraction of a batch, so we can only bake 7 full batches.
Step 5 ：Therefore, we can't bake 18 batches of cookies with 18 cups of flour.
Step 6 ：Final Answer: No, we can't bake 18 batches of cookies with 18 cups of flour. We can only bake \(\boxed{7}\) batches.
