Question

A baker bought some flour. He used 2/5 of the flour to make bread and used the rest to make batches of muffins. If he used 16 lb. of flour making bread and 2/3 lb. for each batch of muffins, how many batches of muffins did he make?

Answer 1

Let’s start out by what we already know. He used 2/5 of flour to make bread and he used 16 Ibs to make bread. This implies that the amount is (2/5)x=16.

2/5x=16

X= 5 x 16/2

X= 40

Since he used 16 Ibs of flour for bread, the rest are for the muffins, which is around 24 Ibs.

We know that each thing of muffins will use 2/3 Ibs of flour.

24/2/3

24/1/2/3

24/1 x 3/2 = 36

36 is the answer to your question. :)

Answer 2

To find the answer,we can first find the flour the baker left after making bread by setting an equation:

Let the orginal amount of flour be y

2/5y = 16
y = 16×5/2
y = 80/2
y = 40

There is 40lb of flour originally,after using 16 lb to make bread,he had:

40-16
=24lb

We can then find the muffin he made by dividing the answer above by 2/3:

24÷2/3
= 24 × 3/2
= 36

Therefore, he made 36 batches of muffins.

Hope it helps!