Bakery sold 48 cupcakes and muffins. If they sold twice as many cupcakes as muffins, how many of each did they sell?

Question

Bakery sold 48 cupcakes and muffins. If they sold twice as many cupcakes as muffins, how many of each did they sell?

Answer 1

Let's start with what we know and label out variables:

let c = cupcakes and m = muffins

48 = c + m

c = 2m (since they sold twice as many c than m)

 

Now that we have a value we can put that into our equation:

48 = 2m + m

48 = 3m

Divide both sides by 3:

16 = m

 

Now that we have m, we can solve for c:

c = 2 * 16

c = 32

 

Now to check our answer:

48 = 32 +16

48 = 48

 

So the bakery sold 32 cupcakes, and 16 muffins.