Dora bought a total of 48 cupcakes. Each cupcake cost $0.55, including tax. Of the cupcakes she bought, 38

Question

were vanilla cupcakes. What was the total cost of only the vanilla cupcakes?

Answer 1

First, we need to determine how many of the 48 cupcakes were not vanilla. We can do that by subtracting the number of vanilla cupcakes from the total number of cupcakes:

48 - 38 = 10

So Dora bought 10 non-vanilla cupcakes. We don't need to know what type of cupcakes they were, since we only need to calculate the cost of the vanilla cupcakes.

To find the cost of the vanilla cupcakes, we can multiply the number of vanilla cupcakes by the price of each cupcake:

38 x 0.55 = $20.90

So the total cost of only the vanilla cupcakes was $20.90.