Question

What is the answer? The glee club has 120 cupcakes to sell. they have decided to arrange the cupcakes in the shape of a rectangle, such that the rows have an even number of cupcakes and the columns have an odd number of cupcakes. How many arrangements of cupcakes can they create? Explain.

Answer 1

Find the number of columns and rows of the cupcake in a rectangle shape with 120 pieces.
=> The row must ne even and the column must be add
=> 120 = 2 x 2 x 2 x 15
=> 120 = 8 x 15
=> 120 = 120
Thus, the glee club will need to arrange the row of the rectangle shaped cupcake as 8 rows and the column as 15 columns.
That gets the total of 120 cupcakes in all.