Question

4 Muffins on each plate. There are 0 plates of lemon muffins.

How many lemon muffins are there?

a:4
b:2
c:1
d:0

Answer 1

If there are no plates of lemon muffins then there are also no lemon muffins themselves at all. Anything multiplied by 0 will always give the result of 0.

4 * 0 = 0

Answer D.

Answer 2

For this case, the first thing we must do is define a variable.
We have then:
x: number of muffin plates
We now write the expression that models the problem.
We know there are 4 muffins in each dish, therefore, we have:

`4x`
Substituting for x = 0 we have:

`4 (0) = 0`
Answer:
There are 0 lemon muffins
d: 0