Question

ou are asked to bake muffins for a breakfast meeting. Just as you are about to start making them, you get a call saying that the number of people coming to the meeting has doubled! Your original recipe called for three eggs. How many eggs do you need to make twice as many muffins? Express your answer as an integer.

Answer 1

6eggs

Explanation:

3 x 2 = n

n=6

Answer 2

Answer: 6

Explanation:

It is given that , the number of eggs required for original recipe = 3

But since the number of people coming to the meeting has doubled! , so the ingredients for the original recipe will be doubled.

That means the number of eggs will be needed to make twice as many muffins= 2 x ( number of eggs required for original recipe)

= 2 x 3 = 6

Hence, the number of eggs will be needed to make twice as many muffins = 6.