Fred and his family are in charge of bringing the snacks to the next Sports Day, so he decides to bake cookies. It takes 1/3 of a cup of sugar to make one batch of chocolate cookies. 1. When Fred looked in his kitchen cabinet he saw he had 5 cups of sugar. How many whole batches of cookies can he make with 5 cups of sugar? Show your work.
You have to divide 5 by 1/3. Dividing by a fraction is the same as multiplying by the fraction's reciprocal. 1/3's reciprocal is 3, and 5*3 is equal to 15.
