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Math Bakery Final Project

The document presents a problem to maximize cupcake production and profits for a school fundraiser given constraints of time, materials, oven space, and costs of production. Vanilla cupcakes are made in batches of 36 taking 45 minutes each while chocolate cupcakes are made by the dozen of 12 in 30 minutes each. The baker has 10 hours, 120 sticks of butter, and can bake 180 cupcakes at a time. By setting up inequalities and a profit table, the optimal solution is determined to be 4 batches of vanilla cupcakes (144 cupcakes) and 13 dozen chocolate cupcakes (156 cupcakes) for a total profit of $1,040.

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Math Bakery Final Project

The document presents a problem to maximize cupcake production and profits for a school fundraiser given constraints of time, materials, oven space, and costs of production. Vanilla cupcakes are made in batches of 36 taking 45 minutes each while chocolate cupcakes are made by the dozen of 12 in 30 minutes each. The baker has 10 hours, 120 sticks of butter, and can bake 180 cupcakes at a time. By setting up inequalities and a profit table, the optimal solution is determined to be 4 batches of vanilla cupcakes (144 cupcakes) and 13 dozen chocolate cupcakes (156 cupcakes) for a total profit of $1,040.

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Problem: You have 10 hours after school

throughout the week to bake as many cupcakes as


you can for an upcoming fundraiser. You want to make
both chocolate and vanilla cupcakes. How do you
make the most cupcakes and money possible for this
fundraiser without going over your constraints?

Vanilla cupcakes have to be made in batches of 36


Each batch requires 3 3/4 cups of butter (7.5 sticks)
It takes 45 minutes to make a batch of cupcakes

Chocolate cupcakes are made in dozens ( batches of 12)


Each dozen requires 1 cup of butter or 2 sticks
It takes 30 minutes to make a dozen

Constraints
Butter: Only have 30 lbs of butter 1 lb of butter = 2 cups = 4 sticks of butter
Only have 120 sticks of butter
One stick of butter is 1/2 a cup

Time: You only have 10 hours after school during the week to bake cupcakes

Space: ( baking trays)


The oven can only bake 180 cupcakes at a time.

Cost
The vanilla cupcakes sell for $2.25 per cupcake and cost $0.55 to make 1
The chocolate Cupcakes sell for $2.30 per cupcake and cost $0.60 to make 1

Solution:

Step 1: Orginize information in a table


Constraints Vanilla Cupcakes Chocolate Cupcake Total

Time 45 minutes per 30 minutes per 10 hours


batch (36) dozen (12)

Materials: Butter 3 3/4 cups of butter 1 cup of butter 1 stick =1/2 cup
(7.5 sticks) per batch (2 sticks) 120 sticks of butter

Oven Space Bake in batches of Bake batches of 12 Can bake 260


36 in 1 tray in 1 tray cupcakes at a time
Step 2: Inequality Equation
0.75v + 0.5c < 10
7.5v + 2c < 120
36v + 12c < 320

Step 3: Profit table


Vanilla
Sell Price = Cost+(Markup*Cost)
Sell Price = 0.55+(3.00*0.55) =2.2

Chocolate
Sell Price = Cost+(Markup*Cost)
Sell Price = 0.57+ (3.00*0.57) = 2.30

item cost sell profit

Vanilla Cupcakes 0.55 2.25 1.7

Chocolate Cupcakes 0.57 2.30 1.73

Step 4: Graph Feasible Region


Change the V to X and the C to Y and enter into Desmos

Step 5: find the best solution based on the feasible region


Vanilla Vanilla Profit Chocolate Chocolate Total Profit
cupcakes *36 cupcakes ^12 Profit
4* (144) $324 13^ (156) $358 $1,040

8* (288) $648 0^ (0) 0 $648

Step 6: max profit solution


The best solution is to make 4 batches or 144 vanilla cupcakes and 13 dozen
or 156 chocolate cupcakes.
Reflection: In what ways has the cookies project helped you gain
perspective on doing real world mathematics?
The cookie project helped me gain perspective on real world business in a lot
of ways. Learning about topics like sell price, margin vs mark up, and the
relationships between the topics. As someone who has not only working in a
small business but has also created their own products and attempted to seel
them these skills seem very important. Through the whole project i was bale
to relate what i was working on to the real world and my own experiences.
When it came to creating my own version of the cooking problem I struggled
more then I expected to. Using tools like google spreadsheets and Desmos
graphing calculator was very difficult. The hardest part about this project
was to understand the graphing and the feasible region, which is arguably
the most important skill of the lesson. I wish that I could re do this project
again because i think i put myself in a hard situation with the bake good I
chose. I struggled to create the constraints and the inequality equations, and
struggling with those elements lead me to struggle with the desmos graphing
and solutions. But at the end of of the project I feel like I understand the core
material behind this project even if I struggled with the creation of my final
project.

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