Question

a bakery is making a cake for a huge weeklong celebration. the recipe for each cake calls for 96 grams of sugar. each cake serves 12 people and the city plans on serving 1500 slices of cake per day for 7 days. how many cakes does the bakery need to make?

Answer 1

Since each cake serves 12 people, then each cake has 12 slices. The city wants to serve 1500 slices per day, for 7 days, which is a total of:

$\text{ total slices=1500}\cdot7=10500$

The city needs a total of 10500 slices. Since each cake has 12 slices we need a total of:

$\text{cakes}=\frac{10500}{12}=875$

The bakery needs to make 875 cakes.