Myra can't wait to make chocolate chip zucchini bread with zucchini from her garden. Her recipe calls for 8 ounces of chocolate chips per loaf. If she has enough zucchini to make 4 loaves of zucchini bread, how many pounds of chocolate chips does she need?Hint: There are 16 ounces in 1 pound.Write your answer as a whole number, decimal, or simplified fraction. Do not round.____ pounds
Q. Myra can't wait to make chocolate chip zucchini bread with zucchini from her garden. Her recipe calls for 8 ounces of chocolate chips per loaf. If she has enough zucchini to make 4 loaves of zucchini bread, how many pounds of chocolate chips does she need?Hint: There are 16 ounces in 1 pound.Write your answer as a whole number, decimal, or simplified fraction. Do not round.____ pounds
Calculate total chocolate chips: Determine the total amount of chocolate chips needed in ounces.Since the recipe calls for 8 ounces of chocolate chips per loaf and Myra is making 4 loaves, we multiply the amount of chocolate chips per loaf by the number of loaves.Calculation: 8 ounces/loaf×4 loaves=32 ounces
Convert to pounds: Convert the total amount of chocolate chips from ounces to pounds.We know that there are 16 ounces in 1 pound. To find out how many pounds 32 ounces is, we divide the total ounces by the number of ounces in a pound.Calculation: 16 ounces/pound32 ounces=2 pounds
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