Chris baked cupcakes for his bakery. He baked 24 vanilla cupcakes and the rest were chocolate cupcakes. He baked 96 cupcakes in all. How many chocolate cupcakes did he bake?
Use the variable c to represent the number of chocolate cupcakes he baked.
Which equation represents this situation and its solution?
a)c + 24 = 96; c = 72
b)96c = 24; c = 4
c)24c = 96; c = 4
d)c + 96 = 24; c = 72