Leslie needs to make a pie and some cupcakes. she's used half of her butter to make the pie, and then uses a quarter of the remaining butter to make the cupcakes. if she has 2 cups of butter left, how much did she have before she made the pie?

Me its important ! marge runs an ice cream parlor. her speciality is triple chocolate sundaes.she can prepare 1 sundae every 2 minutes, and she earns $1.20 for each sundae she makes . if she just makes sundaes for a single shift of at most 4 hours and at least 2 hours , which function relates her earnings to the number of minutes she works?