Raymond normally has a snack consisting of ten 12-calorie crackers. How many 20-calorie cookies would he have to eat to consume the same number of calories?
I want to compare the calories from the crackers and the cookies, so I need to find out how many calories Raymond gets from the crackers. He eats ten crackers, each with 12 calories, so I can multiply 10 by 12 to get the total calories. 10 times 12 is 120, so Raymond gets 120 calories from the crackers. Now I need to find out how many cookies he would have to eat to get 120 calories. Each cookie has 20 calories, so I need to divide 120 by 20 to get the number of cookies. 120 divided by 20 is 6, so Raymond would have to eat 6 cookies to get the same calories as the crackers. 