The kitchen assistant is helping the chef to serve soup. The chef made 3 pots of soup and the assistant is putting \( \frac{1}{16} \) cups of cream on top of the soup in each bowl. There are 12 cups of cream. How many bowls of soup can the assistant help prepare?

To determine how many bowls of soup the assistant can prepare, let's break down the information provided: 1. **Cream per Bowl:** - The assistant uses \( \frac{1}{16} \) cups of cream for each bowl. 2. **Total Cream Available:** - There are 12 cups of cream available in total. 3. **Calculating the Number of Bowls:** - To find out how many bowls can be prepared with the available cream, divide the total cream by the amount used per bowl: \[ \text{Number of Bowls} = \frac{\text{Total Cream}}{\text{Cream per Bowl}} = \frac{12}{\frac{1}{16}} = 12 \times 16 = 192 \] 4. **Considering the Pots of Soup:** - The problem mentions that the chef made 3 pots of soup, but without information about how much soup is in each pot or how much is needed per bowl, we assume that the limiting factor is the amount of cream available. **Conclusion:** The assistant can prepare **192 bowls** of soup with the available 12 cups of cream.