Question

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?

Answer 1

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.