Question

Valeria's Cupcakes recently sold 3 pumpkin cupcakes and 9 other cupcakes. Considering this data, how many of the next 8 cupcakes sold would you expect to be pumpkin cupcakes? ​

Answer 1

Answer: 24 Pumpkin cupcakes.

Step-by-step explanation:

We know that:

They recently sold 6 Pumpkin cupcakes and 8 other cupcakes.

Then we can model this with the ratio 6:8

This means that for each 6 Pumpkin cupcakes sold, they also sell 8 of another type of cupcakes.

With this information, if they sell 56