We need 1/6 cup of butter to be used to make 1/4 batch of cookies.
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From the parameters given:
- The recipe requires 2/3 of a cup of butter for 1 batch cookies;
- Required to make 1/4 of a batch of cookies.
The required cup of butter to be used can be estimated as follows:
Let x be the unknown cup of butter, by cross multiplying;
[tex]\mathbf{x = \dfrac{\dfrac{2}{3}\times \dfrac{1}{4}}{1} }[/tex]
x = 1/6 cup of butter.
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