Question

Joleen is baking strawberry cupcakes for a group of her friends at school. She knows to make 4 cupcakes she is going to need 2 ½ pounds of strawberries. How many pounds of strawberries will she need to buy in order to make 8 of her friends cupcakes? Explain how you got your answer.

Answer 1

Answer:

5 cups

Step-by-step explanation:

Answer 2

Answer:

5 pounds

Step-by-step explanation:

Joleen has 8 friends. Therefore she needs 8 cupcakes.

We know that 4 cupcakes requires 2.5 pounds of strawberries.

Since we are doubling the amount of cupcakes, we also need to double the strawberry amount.

4 x 2 = 8

2.5 x 2 = 5