Armed Forces Classification Test (AFCT) Arithmetic Reasoning Practice Test 2025 - Free AFCT Practice Questions and Study Guide

To determine how many cups of flour are needed to make 36 cookies based on the information given, we can establish a ratio from the recipe provided. The recipe states that 3 cups of flour yield 12 cookies.

First, we can find out how many cookies can be made per cup of flour. If we take 3 cups of flour to make 12 cookies, we can divide the number of cookies by the number of cups of flour:

12 cookies ÷ 3 cups of flour = 4 cookies per cup of flour.

Now, if we want to find out how much flour is needed for 36 cookies, we can set up a proportion or calculate it directly:

1. We previously found that 1 cup of flour gives us 4 cookies, thus to find out how many cups are needed for 36 cookies, we can divide the total number of cookies by the number of cookies produced by 1 cup of flour:

36 cookies ÷ 4 cookies per cup = 9 cups of flour.

Therefore, to make 36 cookies, 9 cups of flour are required. This is why 9 cups is the correct answer. The other options do not provide the right amount of flour needed based on the established ratio