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Question

Josh has 3 cups of frosting to use for 28 cupcakes. He is extra careful to make sure each cupcake gets the same amount of frosting.
How much frosting does each cupcake get?
Write your answer as a proper fraction or mixed number.

Answer 1

To determine how much frosting each cupcake receives, we need to divide the total amount of frosting by the number of cupcakes.

Josh has 3 cups of frosting and 28 cupcakes. We can express this mathematically as:

\[ \text{Frosting per cupcake} = \frac{\text{Total frosting}}{\text{Number of cupcakes}} = \frac{3 \text{ cups}}{28 \text{ cupcakes}} \]

Now, to simplify the fraction \(\frac{3}{28}\):

• The numerator (3) is a prime number, which means it cannot be simplified further with 28.

Thus, the amount of frosting each cupcake gets is:

\[ \frac{3}{28} \text{ cups of frosting per cupcake} \]

So, each cupcake gets \(\frac{3}{28}\) cups of frosting.