Question

A cupcake box has $4$ rows and $5$ columns. What is the maximum number of cupcakes the box can contain?

• A. $24$
• B. $25$
• C. $20$
• D. $45$

Answer 1

The correct option is C $20$

A cupcake box has $4$ rows and $5$ columns which can be shown as

Number of cells in the above box $=5+5+5+5=20$ (as each of the four rows contains five columns).

$\therefore$ Maximum number of cupcakes the box can contain= Number of cells in the box to hold the cupcakes= $4\times 5=20$

Hence, (c.) is the correct option.