It takes 5h 17 mins to decorate 200 cupcakes. How many minutes will it take to decorate three dozen cupcakes?

Answer 1

To find out how many minutes it will take to decorate three dozen cupcakes, we need to first calculate how many cupcakes are in three dozen.

Three dozen cupcakes is equal to 3 x 12 = 36 cupcakes.

Now, we need to find out how long it takes to decorate one cupcake. To do this, we divide the total time it takes to decorate 200 cupcakes (5h 17mins) by 200 cupcakes:

5 hours 17 minutes = 5 x 60 + 17 = 317 minutes
Time to decorate one cupcake = 317 mins / 200 cupcakes ≈ 1.585 mins (rounded to 3 decimal places)

Now that we know it takes roughly 1.585 minutes to decorate one cupcake, we can find out how long it will take to decorate 36 cupcakes:

Time to decorate 36 cupcakes = 36 cupcakes x 1.585 mins/cupcake = 57.06 mins

Therefore, it will take approximately 57.06 minutes to decorate three dozen cupcakes.