Answer:
Step-by-step explanation:
To find out how many sticks of butter are in each cake, you would divide the total number of sticks of butter by the number of cakes she is making.
So, with 15 sticks of butter and 12 cakes:
15 sticks of butter / 12 cakes = 1.25 sticks of butter per cake
However, since you can't have a fraction of a stick of butter, we can't divide the butter equally among the cakes.
One way to handle this is to convert the extra 0.25 sticks of butter into tablespoons, which are more manageable units for a recipe.
Since there are 8 tablespoons in a stick of butter, 0.25 sticks of butter is equal to 2 tablespoons.
So, each cake would have 1 stick of butter and 2 tablespoons of butter.
