Matt's Ice Cream Shoppe has 7 cups of sprinkles to use on sundaes for the rest of the day. If each sundae is served with 1/8

cup of sprinkles, how many sundaes can they serve?
a. 7 1/8
b. 15
c. 30
d. 56

1 answer

They can serve 56 sundaes with the 7 cups of sprinkles.

To see why, we can convert 7 cups to eighths of a cup (since each sundae requires 1/8 cup of sprinkles).

7 cups = 56 eighths of a cup

Therefore, they can serve 56 sundaes.

The answer is d. 56.