SOLUTION: A pastry cook has got a specific number of strawberries. If he uses 12 for each cake, he is left with one strawberry, but he if uses just 8 for each cake, he can decorate six more

Question 785442: A pastry cook has got a specific number of strawberries. If he uses 12 for each cake, he is left with one strawberry, but he if uses just 8 for each cake, he can decorate six more cakes, with one strawberry left also in this case. How many cakes will he be able to decorate if he uses 5 strawverries for each cake? Please let me know how to solve this problem, I beg youuu!! Thanksss
Answer by josgarithmetic(39617) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let b = number of strawberries the cook has.

Using 12 berries per cake, cakes plus cake. I can only feel that this fraction of a cake will not be applied in the next strawberry usage rate;

Using 8 berries per cake, cakes plus cake.
This rate seems to be , units of "cakes".
Multiply left & right by 24 to clear the fractions:

berries or strawberries.

To finish, if the pastry cook applies 5 strawberries per cake, this will be cakes plus 2 strawberries left remaining.
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