Identify the symbolic interpretation of the statement: If a single cake recipe requires 2 cups of flour, how many cakes can be made from 10 cups of flour?
A) $10 - 2 = x$
B) $2 ( 10 ) = x$
C) $\frac { 2 } { 10 } = x$
D) $\frac { 10 } { 2 } = x$

Question

Identify the symbolic interpretation of the statement: If a single cake recipe requires 2 cups of flour, how many cakes can be made from 10 cups of flour? 
A) $10 - 2 = x$
B) $2 ( 10 ) = x$
C) $\frac { 2 } { 10 } = x$
D) $\frac { 10 } { 2 } = x$

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The symbolic interpretation would be to use division because we are trying to find out how many cakes can be made from a certain amount of flour. The recipe requires 2 cups of flour per cake, so we would divide the total amount of flour (10 cups) by the amount of flour per cake (2 cups). Therefore, the answer is 10/2 = 5 cakes can be made from 10 cups of flour. Option D represents this symbolic interpretation.

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