John is icing 30 cupcakes. He spreads mint icing on 1/5 of the cupcakes and chocolate icing on 1/2 of the remaining cupcakes. How many cupcakes will get chocolate frosting?

12 cupcakes will get chocolate frosting

Step-by-step explanation: John started with 30 cupcakes and spresd mint icing on 1/5 of these. That means he did the following

Mint icing = 30 x 1/5

Mint icing = 6

That leaves him with a total of 30 minus 6 cupcakes which equals 24 cupcakes.

Next he spreads chocolate icing on half of the remaining, that is half of 24. That means he did the following;

Chocolate icing = 24 x 1/2

Chocolate icing = 12

Therefore 12 cupcakes will get chocolate frosting

the correct answer is 5 6 and 7

-12 > a

step-by-step explanation:

-11 > 1 + a

subtract 1 from each side

-11-1 > 1-1+a

-12 > a