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My cupcake recipe makes $12$ cupcakes and requires $1\frac12$ sticks of butter. I can only buy whole sticks of butter. How many whole sticks of butter must I buy to make $100$ cupcakes?

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Step-by-step explanation:

Answer: There are 8 cupcakes is needed to make 100 cupcakes.

Step-by-step explanation:

Since we have given that

Number of cupcakes = 12

Part of sticks of butter is needed to 12 cupcakes is given by

According to question, I can only buy whole sticks of butter.

So, to make 100 cupcakes,

Number of whole sticks of butter is given by

So, number of whole sticks of butter to make 100 cupcakes  = 8