Number Crushing Cupcake

Any day is a perfect day for the nice, neat math in one of our favorite snacks, the cupcake. Back in the 1800s, cupcakes were called "number cakes," because the recipe used 1 cup of butter, 2 cups of sugar, 3 cups of flour, and 4 eggs (plus some milk and baking soda).

How many ingredients are used in the recipe?

Answer explanation

the number of ingredients is six: butter, sugar, flour, eggs, milk, and baking soda

The world's largest cupcake was baked by Georgetown Cupcake in Washington, DC, it weighed 2,594 pounds.

One ton is 2000 pounds. A one ton truck is a Chevy Silverado.

Which weighs more the truck or the cupcake?

Answer explanation

A 2594 pound cupcake is 594 MORE pounds than a one ton (2000 pound) truck.

$2594-2000=594$

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CCSS.4.MD.A.2

The recipe included 500 pounds of flour, 300 pounds of butter, and 100 pounds of cocoa powder, along with 200 dozen eggs!

A dozen eggs weighs about 1.5 pounds. How much does 200 dozen eggs weigh?

• 300 pounds

• 200 pounds

• 250 pounds

• 150 pounds

• some pounds

Answer explanation

$200\ \times1.5\ =300$

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CCSS.4.MD.A.2

If you're 5 feet tall and that cupcake is 3 feet tall, how much taller than the cupcake are you?

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CCSS.2.MD.A.4

Which is longer, the distance around a cupcake, or the distance across it? Look at any circle to figure it out!

• the distance around a cupcake

• the distance across a cupcake

Answer explanation

the distance across a cupcake (or any circle) is called the DIAMETER, the distance around a cupcake is the CIRCUMFERENCE.

If your recipe instead uses 2 cups of butter, twice as many cups of sugar, and twice as much flour as sugar, how many cups is that so far?

• 2

• 4

• 6

• 12

• 14

Answer explanation

$2\ +4+8=14$
butter +sugar + flour

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CCSS.4.OA.A.2

How many eggs are in 200 dozen, anyway?

• 24

• 240

• 2400

Answer explanation

$12\times200=2400$

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CCSS.7.EE.B.3

If 1 person can lift 100 pounds at most, how many people would it take to pick up this 2,594-pound cupcake?

Answer explanation

2594 rounded up is 2600

$2600\div100=26$
So it would take 26 people to lift up the cupcake. I just hope they get to eat the cupcake.

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CCSS.6.RP.A.3B

How many people did it take to eat the world's largest cupcake?

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CCSS.5.NBT.B.6

CCSS.6.NS.B.2