Question

on some days a bakery packages 4 cupcakes to a package. on other days, cupcakes are in packages of 6 or 8. on a given day, all the cupcakes baked were packaged and there was one cupcake left over. which of the following could NOT be the number of cupcakes baked on that day? 22, 25, 49, 97

Answer 1

The answer is 22. If one cupcake left over and the bakery packages only even numbers of cupcakes in a package, then the answer shouldn't be even number.

Answer 2

The answer is 22 cupcakes.

I just subtracted 8 out of all the answer choices until I was left with 1 (the leftover cupcake). 22-8-8=6 and you can't subtract 8 out of 6 and get 1 so it can't be the number of cupcakes baked on that day