Ms. Sunshine is going to bake cookies for her students. She wants each student to receive 2.5 cookies. If she has 25 students in her class, how many cookies does she need to bake?

1 Answer
Oct 7, 2016

63 cookies.

Explanation:

To find the number of cookies multiply 2.5 x 25

# 2.5 xx 25# = 62.5 cookies There is one decimal unit in the problem( .5) so there must be one decimal unit in the answer.

62.(5)

However it is difficult to bake 1/2 a cookie so Ms Sunshine must bake 63 whole cookies to get enough for each student to have 2.5 cookies.

Hint that is a lot of cutting cookies in half, wear gloves) and most school district no longer allow home cooked food in the class room.