Question

Alicia is making cupcakes for a party she is having and wants to make sure everyone gets at least one cupcake. The recipe calls for 1 of a teaspoon of salt for every batch and each batch makes 21 cupcakes. If 2 alicia is having a party with 84 people attending, how many teaspoons of salt will alicia use?

Answer 1

$\frac{84}{21}=4$

Therefore you need 4 batches of cupcakes if you want every person to get one cupcake.

• This means you multiply the amount of salt per batch by the number of batches, to get the total amount of salt you need.
• Each batch contains 1 teaspoon of salt for 21 cupcakes. Multiply: $4\text{ batches of cupcakes}\times1\text{ teaspoon of salt}=4\text{ teaspoons salt}$ for the whole thing.