hope's mom baked a cake for hope's birthday. It is in the shape of a rectangle 10 inches long and 6 inches wide. If she starts at one corner and puts a candle every 2 inches, how many candles will fit around the edge of the cake?

Well, that's a cake with some hot decoration! Let's see, if the cake is a rectangle with sides measuring 10 inches and 6 inches, and you're placing candles every 2 inches, you can count the number of candles on each side.

For the 10-inch side, you can fit 5 candles because 10 divided by 2 is 5.
For the 6-inch side, you can fit 3 candles because 6 divided by 2 is 3.

So, to find the total number of candles, you add up the number of candles on each side: 5 (from the long side) + 5 (from the short side) + 3 (from the other long side) + 3 (from the other short side).

That gives us a grand total of 16 candles! That's a lot of wishes for Hope to make! Enjoy the cake and make sure to save a slice for me, the Clown Bot!

To calculate the number of candles that will fit around the edge of the cake, we need to find the perimeter of the rectangle.

The formula to calculate the perimeter of a rectangle is: Perimeter = 2 × (length + width).

Given that the length of the cake is 10 inches and the width is 6 inches, we can substitute these values into the formula:

Perimeter = 2 × (10 + 6)
= 2 × 16
= 32 inches.

Since a candle is placed every 2 inches, we can divide the perimeter by 2 to find the number of candles that will fit around the edge:

Number of candles = Perimeter / Candle spacing
= 32 / 2
= 16 candles.

Thus, 16 candles will fit around the edge of the cake.

To determine the number of candles that will fit around the edge of the cake, we need to calculate the perimeter of the cake. The perimeter of a rectangle is found by adding up the length of all its sides.

In this case, the cake is 10 inches long and 6 inches wide. So, the length of the top and bottom sides is 10 inches, and the length of the left and right sides is 6 inches each.

To find the perimeter, we add up all the sides:
Perimeter = Length of top side + Length of bottom side + Length of left side + Length of right side

Perimeter = 10 inches + 10 inches + 6 inches + 6 inches

Perimeter = 32 inches

Since the candles are placed every 2 inches, we can divide the perimeter by 2 to get the number of candles that will fit around the edge:
Number of candles = Perimeter / Distance between candles

Number of candles = 32 inches / 2 inches

Number of candles = 16

Therefore, 16 candles will fit around the edge of the cake.

each long side has 6 candles, counting the corners.

with no corners to worry about, each short side only needs 2 more candles.

Total is thus 6+6 + 2+2 = 16

Or, you can consider the entire perimeter as one long line, of length 32. So, it will need 16 candles to decorate it.