Mrs. Hogan made 24 cupcakes for Keira's birthday. She put pink frosting on 1/4 of the cupcakes. She put purple frosting on 1/2 of the remaining cupcakes. The rest had blue frosting. How many cupcakes get blue frosting?

9 Blue Cupcakes

Step-by-step explanation:

First, draw a diagram.

(suppose the blank stars are the pink cupcakes, black stars are the purple cupcakes and the half blank-half black stars are the blue cupcakes)

Then, figure out how much is 1/4 of 24, which is 6.

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There are 18 cupcakes left. Then, figure out what 1/2 of 18 is, which is 9.

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Finally, see how many are remaining, which are 9 cupcakes left.

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Hopefully this helped!

-✩sandwichchan✩

describing distributions is one of the key skills you’ll need to earn a high score on the ap statistics exam. if you need proof of this, just flip through some past exam questions, which can be found at the collegeboard website. you’ll notice that the first free response question is almost always a question requiring you to look at a graph and describe it.

step-by-step explanation: just trying to get points sorry : (