Answer:
(C) 18 muffins
Step-by-step explanation:
(12 cups)/(2/3 cups/muffin) = 12·3/2 muffins = 18 muffins
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You can consider this as a unit conversion problem. You have units of cups, and you want units of muffins. Then you need to multiply by a number that has units of muffins/cup.
You have a number that has units of cups/muffin (the inverse of the desired conversion factor), so you can do the required conversion by dividing by that number.
The answer is 8 muffins.
Let the number of muffins that the baker made be represented by x.
Since the baker used 12 cups of batter to make muffins and it took 2/3 cup of batter to make 1 muffin, this will then be:
x = 2/3 × 12 cups of batter.
x = 8
Therefore, the baker made 8 muffins.
The answer is 8 muffins.
