I have 209.2 cups of cupcake batter in a bowl. If each cupcake uses 4 cups of batter, how many cupcakes can be made? How many times bigger do the divisor and dividend need to be in order to solve this problem?
I divided 209.2 by 4 and got an answer of 52.3 cupcakes. I just do not understand the last part of the question asking: "How many times bigger do the divisor and dividend need to be in order to solve this problem?"
Thank you!
I don't really understand it either. Possibly they are looking for the values that will not have a fraction of cupcake in the solution.
To solve the problem, you correctly divided 209.2 (the dividend) by 4 (the divisor) to get 52.3 cupcakes. The last part of the question is asking how much bigger the divisor and dividend need to be in order to solve the problem.
In this case, the divisor is 4, which represents the amount of batter used per cupcake. The dividend is 209.2, which represents the total amount of batter in the bowl. To solve the problem, you divided the total amount of batter by the amount used per cupcake.
If you want to make the divisor and dividend "times bigger," you can multiply them by the same number. For example, if you multiply both the 4 (divisor) and 209.2 (dividend) by 10, you get a new divisor of 40 and a new dividend of 2092.
Dividing the new dividend (2092) by the new divisor (40) would still give you the answer of 52.3 cupcakes.
So, to answer the question "How many times bigger do the divisor and dividend need to be in order to solve this problem?," they can be any multiple of each other as long as the ratio between them remains the same. In this case, multiplying both by the same number keeps the ratio intact.