Question

ASAP....A recipe required 3/4 cup of nuts for 1 cake. Determine the maximum number of cakes that can be made using 7 ½ cups of nuts.
A. 10
B. 11
C. 7
D. 1

Answer 1

3/4 cup of nuts ... 1 cake
7 1/2 = 15/2 cups of nuts ... x cakes = ?

If you would like to know the maximum number of cakes, you can calculate this using the following steps:

3/4 * x = 1 * 15/2
3/4 * x = 15/2      /*4/3
x = 15/2 * 4/3
x = 10 cakes

The correct result would be A. 10 cakes.