Mitch is baking a cake and needs 3 cups of flour and two cups of sugar. He doesn't have a one cup scoop, only a 1/3 cup scoop. How many total scoops will he need? Let's think first. Chain of thought:
He needs 9 scoops of flour because 3 / (1 / 3) = 9. He needs 6 scoops of sugar because 2 / (1 / 3) = 6. He needs 15 total scoops because 9 + 6 = 15.
Therefore, the answer is 15.