You buy 20 cupcakes for $15 and are going to sell them for $2 each. You want to write an expression that represents how much money you will make each day that you sell cupcakes. Which of these quantities should be represented with a variable?(1 point)

Question

You buy 20 cupcakes for $15 and are going to sell them for $2 each. You want to write an expression that represents how much money you will make each day that you sell cupcakes. Which of these quantities should be represented with a variable?(1 point)
Responses

the number of cupcakes you bought
the number of cupcakes you bought

the number of cupcakes sold
the number of cupcakes sold

the amount of money you spent on the cupcakes
the amount of money you spent on the cupcakes

the cost of each cupcake sold

GPT-4o mini · Answer

The quantity that should be represented with a variable is **the number of cupcakes sold**. This is because the number of cupcakes you sell can vary each day, impacting your total earnings. The other quantities are constants in this scenario.