Question

You have prizes to reveal! Go to yo Fifth grade Y.11 Multi-step problems with customary uni Instead of having a cake, Trent wants to make ice cream sundaes at his next birthday party. He thinks each person will eat 2 cups of ice cream, and there will be 24 people at his party. How many 1-gallon tubs of ice cream should he buy? tubs Submit

Answer 1

Given data:

The number of cups of ice cream a person eats, N=2.

Total number of people attending the party, M=24.

So, the total number of cups of ice cream needed is,

$\begin{gathered} T=N\times M \\ =2\times24 \\ =48\text{ cups} \end{gathered}$

We know,

$1galllon=16cups.$

Therefore,

$1\text{ cup=}\frac{1}{16}gallon$

Therefore, the number of gallon tubs of ice cream to be bought is,

$\begin{gathered} T=48\times\frac{1}{16}\text{gallon} \\ =3\text{ gallons} \end{gathered}$

Hence, 3 gallon tubs of ice cream is to be bought by Trent.