A cake recipe requires cups of flour to make 1 cake. How many cakes can be made by a baker who has 16 cups of flour?

3 cakes

You need to add 4.5 until you get the closest you can get to 16 with out going over.

step-by-step explanation:

the multiplicative inverse of a fraction a/b is b/a. for the multiplicative inverse of a real number, divide 1 by the number. for example, the reciprocal of 5 is one fifth 1/5 or 0.2, and the reciprocal of 0.25 is 1 divided by 0.25, or 4.

total of apples - take away four

6-4 = 2

answer is 2 apples