Margot has 21 1/2 pounds of flour 8 pounds of butter and 18 1/2 ponds of sugar to make shortbread cookies if she makes 12 batches of cookies and uses all the ingredients how many pounds of ingredients are used in each batch

4 pounds of ingredients are used in each batch.

Step-by-step explanation:

Amount of flour =

Amount of butter = 8 pounds

Amount of sugar =

So, the total amount of all ingredients will be:  

Given that, she makes 12 batches of cookies using all the ingredients.

Thus, the amount of ingredients used in each batch

You can see that both multiplication and subtraction appear in one equation. You goal is to solve for the variable. To accomplish this, review the suggestion in the box about the order of operations. Order of Operations. a) Evaluate expressions inside grouping symbols.