Your baking cupcakes for the school dance,and your recipe makes 24 cupcakes and needs 2 cups of milk. You need to make 288 cupcakes, how many quarts of milk will you need?

1 Answer
Jun 12, 2018

You will need #6# quarts of milk (#24# cups).

Explanation:

The number of cupcakes needed #(288)# divided by the number of cupcakes the recipe makes each batch #(24)# is

#"288 cupcakes"/"24 cupcakes/recipe" = "12 recipes"#

#12# is the number of times you need to remake the recipe to end up with #288# cupcakes.

#12# multiplied by the amount of cups of milk per recipe (#2# cups) will give you the total cups needed to make #288# cupcakes

#"12 recipes" xx "2 cups"/"1 recipe" = "24 cups of milk"#

Now, #24# cups is equivalent to #6# quarts, so you will need #6# quarts of milk to make #288# cupcakes.