Question

Karen is estimating how much flour she needs if each cake requires 2 2/6 cups of flour and she is making 3 cakes. Explain how many cakes can Karen make.

Answer 1

Answer:

The answer is 7 cups

Step-by-step explanation:

1 cake-2 2/6 cups

Which can also be written as

1 cake-14/6 cups

3 cakes-x cup

Cross multiply

x=14/2

x=7

Therefore Karen needs 7 cups of flour to make 3 cakes