Question

a baker at a successful bakery makes three types of cupcakes: vanilla, red velvet, and double chocolate. on wednesday, he made 18 vanilla cupcakes, which was 17% of the total amount of cupcakes he made. how many total cupcakes did the baker make on wednesday

Answer 1

106 cupcakes for that Wednesday.

Explanation:

Let T stand for the total number of cupcakes the baker made on the Wednesday in question. We learn that 17% of the total were vanilla cupcakes, and that there were 18 of them. We can write that as:

(17%)*T = 18

(0.17)T = 18

T = 105.8

We'll round that up to 106 total cupcakes made on that Wednesday, including the 18 vanilla ones.