Question

Hoskins is icing 30 cupcakes he spreads mint icing on 1/5 of the cupcakes and chocolate on 7/12 of the remaining cupcakes the rest will get vanilla frosting how many cupcakes have vanilla frosting

Answer 1

10 cupcakes

Explanation:

6 cupcakes have mint icing. This means there are 24 cupcakes left. 7/12 of these, or 14 cupcakes, have chocolate frosting. This means that there are 10 vanilla frosted cupcakes.