Melia is baking small cakes. Each small cake requires 1 1/4 cup of frosting. If Melia wants to make 12 small cakes, how much frosting will she need?

15 cups of frosting

Step-by-step explanation:

Melia is making small cakes and each of them will take 1 1/4 cups of frosting.

If she has to make 12 cakes, the amount of frosting needed would be the 12 cakes multiplied by 1 1/4.

First convert 1 1/4 to an improper fraction = 5/4

= 12 cakes * 5/4

= 15 cups of frosting