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You can decorate 24 cupcakes in 30 minutes, how long will it take you to decorate 144 cupcakes? (please help with forming a linear equation)

You can decorate 24 cupcakes in 30 minutes, how long will it take you to decorate 144 cupcakes? (please help with forming a linear equation)
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You can decorate 24 cupcakes in 30 minutes, how long will it take you to decorate 144 cupcakes?

(please help with forming a linear equation)

User Abu Hanifa
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It would take you 3 hours.
24×2 (because 30 min is only 1/2 an hr) = 48 cupcakes an hour.
144 divided by 48 gives you 3 hours.
Let y be the total, 144, and x be number of hours.
144 (y)= 48x
x=3
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