There are 6 donuts in 1 bag, 12 donuts in 2 bags, 18 donuts in 3 bags, and so on. Show your work, how many donuts are in 8 bags? Choose the correct answer.

Question

a) 14
b) 60
c) 48
d) 36

Answer 1

To find the pattern, we can see that the number of bags is increasing by 1 each time (1 bag, 2 bags, 3 bags, etc.) and the number of donuts in each bag is increasing by 6 each time (6 donuts, 12 donuts, 18 donuts, etc.).

So we can set up a table to represent the number of donuts:

1 bag -> 6 donuts
2 bags -> 12 donuts
3 bags -> 18 donuts
4 bags -> 24 donuts
5 bags -> 30 donuts
6 bags -> 36 donuts
7 bags -> 42 donuts
8 bags -> 48 donuts

From the pattern, we can see that there are 48 donuts in 8 bags. Therefore, the correct answer is c) 48.