Question

Tom has already baked 4 cakes, and he can bake 1 cake with each additional stick of butter he buys. How many additional sticks of butter does Tom need in order to bake a total of 42 cakes?

Answer in the number of additional sticks of butter.

Answer 1

since it takes 1 additional stick to bake a cake,then it takes 84 additional sticks to bake 42 cakes