Question

Austin made 5 quarts of his special from-scratch cupcake mix. He was able to make 32 identical cupcakes using 3.5 quarts of his special mix. Austin would like to bake 20 more identical cupcakes to ice each cupcake in the likeness of a playing-card. Does he have enough left to create 20 additional cupcakes? Explain.

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Answer:

  no

Step-by-step explanation:

We can write a proportion to find how much mix is required to make 52 cupcakes.

  quarts/cupcakes = 3.5/32 = x/52

Multiplying by 52, we find ...

  x = 52(3.5/32) = 5.6875 . . . quarts needed for 52 cupcakes

This is more mix than Austin made. He does not have enough left for 20 more cupcakes.