Ms. Morgan's cupcake recipe uses 8 tablespoons of butter to make 28 cupcakes.
How many tablespoons of butter would be used to make 42 cupcakes?
A. 5 tablespoons
B. 12 tablespoons
C. 22 tablespoons
D. 28 tablespoons

It takes 12 tablespoons of butter to make 42 cupcakes.

Step-by-step explanation:

This is a proportions problem.

Butter/Cupcakes is or simplified. This means there are 2 table spoons of better to every 7 cupcakes.

To solve for 42 cupcakes, set

Next, Cross multiply so that 2 is multiplied by 42 and 7 by x.

Divide to isolate x

Since x represents the amount of butter, you would need 12 tablespoons of butter to make 42 cupcakes.

answer: all the values are within because it has a pattern that repeats from -6 to 4.

good luck!

just sum

10 + 10 = 20