For Anthony's birthday his mother is making cupcakes for us 12 friends at his daycare the recipe calls for 3 1/2 cups of flour the recipe makes 2 1/2 dozen *

Question

The end of the question is: *cookies . Anthony's mother has only one cup of flour is there a enough flour for each of his friends to get a cupcake

Answer 1

You can set up a proportion to solve this problem.

 

3.5/30 = 1/x

 

If x ≥ 12, then everyone can eat cupcakes.

 

Cross-multiply to get 3.5x = 30.  So, x = 8.5.

 

There isn't enough cupcakes for everyone.