Question

A baker is decorating cupcakes using 3 cherries for every 1 cupcake. If the baker has 12 cherries and 5 cupcakes, what is the theoretical yield?
A. 2 decorated cupcakes
B. 3 decorated cupcakes
C. 4 decorated cupcakes
D. 5 decorated cupcakes

Answer 1

C. 4 decorated cupcakes.

Because 12 divided by 3 = 4, so you can have 4 cupcakes each with 3 cherries

Answer 2

Answer: Option (C) is the correct answer.

Explanation:

Since there are only 12 cherries for decorating the cup cakes and each cupcake has 3 cherries. Therefore, 12 divided by 3 equals 4, this means that only four cupcakes can be decorated out of the five cupcakes.

Mathematically,     $\frac{12}{3}$ = 4

Hence, we can conclude that the theoretical yield is four decorated cups.