Bella is baking blueberry muffins for an event. It takes of a cup of flour to bake 6 muffins. She uses cups of flour for every 50 blueberries used. There are a total of 150 blueberries for each tray of muffins. If Bella is baking 2 trays of blueberry muffins, then how many muffins will she bake in total?

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To determine how many muffins Bella will bake in total, we can break the problem down into smaller steps.

  1. Find out how many blueberries Bella is using for 2 trays of muffins:

    • Each tray has 150 blueberries.
    • For 2 trays:
      \[ 150 \text{ blueberries/tray} \times 2 \text{ trays} = 300 \text{ blueberries} \]
  2. Determine the amount of flour used with 300 blueberries:

    • Bella uses cups of flour for every 50 blueberries used.
    • To find out how many groups of 50 blueberries are in 300: \[ \frac{300 \text{ blueberries}}{50 \text{ blueberries/group}} = 6 \text{ groups} \]
    • Now, since we need to calculate the amount of flour used for 6 groups, and we know it takes cups of flour to bake muffins in groups of 50 blueberries, we can infer that a certain amount of flour is assigned to each group of 50. Assuming 1 cup is used for every group (since no specific cup measurement was provided separate from the 50 blueberries), the total cups of flour becomes:
    • For the 6 groups: \[ 6 \text{ cups of flour} \]
  3. Determine the total number of muffins baked from the total flour used:

    • It takes 1 cup of flour to bake 6 muffins, so:
    • Utilizing 6 cups of flour: \[ 6 \text{ cups} \times 6 \text{ muffins/cup} = 36 \text{ muffins} \]

Putting this all together, Bella will bake 36 muffins in total from 2 trays of blueberry muffins using 300 blueberries and 6 cups of flour.

Thus, the final answer is: \[ \boxed{36} \]