Question

Brendan is making chocolate chip pancakes for his whole family. He wants to make sure that there is
1
4
of a cup of chocolate chips in each pancake. He has a 5-cup bag of chocolate chips. How many pancakes can Brendan make?
Write your answer as a fraction or a whole number.

Answers

GPT-4o mini
To find out how many pancakes Brendan can make, we need to divide the total amount of chocolate chips he has by the amount of chocolate chips required for each pancake.

Brendan has 5 cups of chocolate chips, and each pancake requires \( \frac{1}{4} \) cup of chocolate chips.

We can calculate the number of pancakes using the following formula:

\[
\text{Number of pancakes} = \frac{\text{Total chocolate chips}}{\text{Chocolate chips per pancake}}
\]

Substituting the values:

\[
\text{Number of pancakes} = \frac{5 \text{ cups}}{\frac{1}{4} \text{ cup per pancake}}
\]

To divide by a fraction, we multiply by its reciprocal:

\[
\text{Number of pancakes} = 5 \times 4 = 20
\]

Therefore, Brendan can make **20 pancakes**.