Question

Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe: 1 cup of flour 100 chocolate chips 1 cup sugar 1/2 cup milk Yields 10 cookies You and your sister want to bake chocolate chip cookies. You go to the store and buy 5 cups of flour, three bags of chips, each containing 100 chocolate chips, 6 cups of sugar, and a half gallon of milk. You want to make as many cookies as possible. What is your limiting reactant, the ingredient that would run out first?

Answer 1

The limiting reactant is the chocolate chips (they would run out first) because you can only make 3 batches with 300 chips.

Answer 2

The first ingredient to run out would be the chocolate chips.

Limiting Reactants

A limiting reactant is a reactant that determines the amount of product that would be formed in a reaction.

In this scenario, the ratio of flower to chocolate chips to sugar to milk for a 100 cookies is 1:100:1:0.5.

The ratio of the same ingredients bought in the store is  5:300:6:16

Note: 16 cups = a gallon

To the lowest ratio: 5:300:6:16 = 1:60:1.2:3.02

Since the ratio of flour to chocolate chips is 1:100, it means that the chocolate chips would be the first to run out first and thus, the limiting reactant.

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