Question

Jasmine is short on frosting! She works in a bakery and has 15 equal-sized cakes to frost, but she is short a total of 4 7/8 cups of frosting. Jasmine spreads the frosting she has among the 15 cakes. Then she makes a sign, naming the cakes by the number of cups of frosting short each cake is. How many cups of frosting does each cake get?

Answer 1

Jasmine is short by 4 7/8 cups of frosting for 15 cakes, which means each cake is short by 0.325 cups of frosting.

Step-by-step explanation:

Jasmine is working in a bakery and needs to spread her limited frosting among 15 equal-sized cakes. She is short 4 7/8 cups of frosting. To find out how much less frosting each cake gets, divide the total shortage by the number of cakes.

1. Convert 7/8 to a decimal to make the division easier, which equals 0.875.
2. Add the whole number 4 to the decimal 0.875 to get 4.875.
3. Divide 4.875 cups by 15 cakes to find out the shortage per cake.
4. The result is 0.325 cup per cake, which means each cake is 0.325 cups short of frosting.