Question

A baker used 12 cups of batter to make muffins. It took 2/3 cup of batter to make 1 muffin. How many muffins did the baker make? (A) 6 muffins (B) 8 muffins (C) 18 muffins (D) 36 muffins

Answer 1

The answer is 8 muffins.

Let the number of muffins that the baker made be represented by x.

Since the baker used 12 cups of batter to make muffins and it took 2/3 cup of batter to make 1 muffin, this will then be:

x = 2/3 × 12 cups of batter.

x = 8

Therefore, the baker made 8 muffins.

The answer is 8 muffins.

Answer 2

(C) 18 muffins

Explanation:

(12 cups)/(2/3 cups/muffin) = 12·3/2 muffins = 18 muffins

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You can consider this as a unit conversion problem. You have units of cups, and you want units of muffins. Then you need to multiply by a number that has units of muffins/cup.

You have a number that has units of cups/muffin (the inverse of the desired conversion factor), so you can do the required conversion by dividing by that number.