Cheryl has 16 cupcakes made. She can make 48 cupcakes an hour. A customer asks for 160 cupcakes. How many hours will it take Cheryl to make enough cupcakes for the customer?

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Cheryl has 16 cupcakes made. She can make 48 cupcakes an hour. A customer asks for 160 cupcakes.   How many hours will it take Cheryl to make enough cupcakes for the customer?

flufflepuffle · Answer

3.333

anonymous · Answer

Okay, she a customer asks for 160 cupcakes. She already has 16 made, now how many does she have to make? divide that answer by the number of cupcakes she can make in an hour and BOOM you have your answer

anonymous · Answer

So 160 - 16 = _____ and ______/48

anonymous · Answer

Thanks  so much I am clueless

texaschic101 · Answer

another way is to set it up as a proportion..
48/1 = 160/x ---- (48 cupcakes to 1 hr = 160 cupcakes to x hrs)
cross multiply
48x = 160 -- divide both sides by 48
x = 160/48
x = 3.33 hrs

anonymous · Answer

actually the answer is 3 not 3.33

texaschic101 · Answer

oops..that is right...because she already had 16 made,,,,so she needed 160 - 16 = 144 cupcakes. You would then set your proportion up like this :
48/1 = 144/x
cross multiply
48x = 144
x = 144/48
x = 3
kmac is correct