Question

Dora baked 12 cupcakes. She used 1/4 pound of flour for each cupcake. She used 1/2 of the flour in the container. How much flour was in the container?

Answer 1

There was 6 pounds of flour in the container.

Explanation:

Because each cupcake used a fourth of a pound and she made 12 cupcakes she used a total of 3 pounds. It also said she used half the container which would mean there was originally 6 pounds of flour.