Question

There are 3/4 as many vanilla cupcakes as chocolate cupcakes in a bakery. If there are 35 cupcakes in the bakery, how many are chocolate?

Answer 1

8.75

1/4 of 35=8.75 so about 9

Explanation:

Answer 2

20 Chocolate cupcakes and 15 vanilla cupcakes.

Explanation:

Use c for chocolate cupcakes and v for vanilla cupcakes.

3/4c=v

c+v=35

Use substitution

c+3/4c=35

1 3/4c=35 or 7/4c=35 --> Multiply by reciprocal

c=20

Plug it into an equation

20+v=35

v=15