Question

Mrs.Hogan made 24 cupcakes for Keira's birthday. She put pink frosting on 1/4 of the cupcakes. She put purple frosting on 1/2 of the remaining cupcakes. The rest had blue frosting. How many cupcakes get blue frosting?

Answer 1

9 Blue Cupcakes

Explanation:

First, draw a diagram.

(suppose the blank stars are the pink cupcakes, black stars are the purple cupcakes and the half blank-half black stars are the blue cupcakes)

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Then, figure out how much is 1/4 of 24, which is 6.

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There are 18 cupcakes left. Then, figure out what 1/2 of 18 is, which is 9.

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Finally, see how many are remaining, which are 9 cupcakes left.

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Hopefully this helped!

-✩sandwichchan✩