Cheryl has 16 cupcakes made. She can make 48 cupcakes an hour. A customer asks for 160 cupcakes. How many hours will it take Cheryl to make enough cupcakes for the customer? ____h

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the customer needs 160 cupcakes and Cheryl  already has 16 cupcakes made
so she needs to make 160- 16=144 cupcakes more

if in 1 hour she can make 48 
1 hour ------------------------- 48 cupcakes??? hours ---------------------144 cupcakes 
cross multiplication 144divided by 48  = 3 hours