Question

At a bakery, 6 ½ quarts of cake mix can be used to bake 3 ½ cakes. If 14 cakes are going to be baked, how many quarts of cake mix will be needed? *

Just show your work, and explain how you did it!

Answer 1

26! Hope this helps

Answer 2

26 quarts

Explanation:

`6(1)/(2) = (13)/(2)\\\\3(1)/(2) = (7)/(2)`

Quarts Cake

`(13)/(2)`
`(7)/(2)`

x 14

find x.

Cross multiply to find x.

`x * (7)/(2) = 14* (13)/(2)\\\\(7x)/(2) = 7 * 13\\\\7x = 7 * 13 * 2\\\\x = (7 * 13 * 2)/(7) = 26`

So you need 26 quarts for 14 cakes