Question

Dynasti is baking cookies and cupcakes. The cookies use 2 cups of sugar per batch and the cupcakes use 3 cups of sugar per batch. Write two equivalent expressions using the Distributive Property. Then find how many total cups of sugar are needed if she is making 5 batches of each.

Answer 1

25 cups of sugar

Explanation:

Cookies :

2 cups of sugar per batch

Cupcakes :

3 cups of sugar per batch

For 5 batches :

Cups of sugar = cups per batch * number of batches :

Cookies : 2 * 5 = 10 cups of sugar

Cupcakes = 3 * 5 = 15 cups of sugar

Total cups of sugar used :

(10 + 15) cups of sugar

25 cups of sugar.