Question

The Corner Bakery makes many cupcakes each day.On Tuesday 1/4th of the cupcakes were chocolate and 5/8 of the cupcakes were vanilla.How many more cupcakes were vanilla?

Answer 1

3/8 vanilla cupcakes more than chocolate cupcakes

Explanation:

Given that:

Chocolate cupcakes = 1/4 of cupcakes

Vanilla cupcakes = 5/8 of cupcakes

How many more cupcakes were vanilla?

(fraction of vanilla cupcakes - fraction of chocolate cupcakes)

(5/8 - 1/4)

Take the lowest common factor ; 8

(5 - 2) / 8

= 3 /8

Hence, vanilla cupcakes is 3/8 more than chocolate cupcakes.