Your baking cupcakes for the school dance,and your recipe makes 24 cupcakes and needs 2 cups of milk. You need to make 288 cupcakes, how many quarts of milk will you need?

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Answer 1 · 2018-06-12T16:20:16

You will need $6$ $6$ quarts of milk ( $24$ $24$ cups).

The number of cupcakes needed $(288)$ $(288)$ divided by the number of cupcakes the recipe makes each batch $(24)$ $(24)$ is

$\frac{288 cupcakes}{24 cupcakes/recipe} = 12 recipes$ $"288 cupcakes"/"24 cupcakes/recipe" = "12 recipes"$

$12$ $12$ is the number of times you need to remake the recipe to end up with $288$ $288$ cupcakes.

$12$ $12$ multiplied by the amount of cups of milk per recipe ( $2$ $2$ cups) will give you the total cups needed to make $288$ $288$ cupcakes

$12 recipes \times \frac{2 cups}{1 recipe} = 24 cups of milk$ $"12 recipes" xx "2 cups"/"1 recipe" = "24 cups of milk"$

Now, $24$ $24$ cups is equivalent to $6$ $6$ quarts, so you will need $6$ $6$ quarts of milk to make $288$ $288$ cupcakes.