At Hank's cafe, he sells big stack pancakes which have 5 pancakes and short stack pancakes which have 3 pancakes. If 9 customers order the short stack and 6 customers order the big stack, how many pancakes does Hank need to make? Give me reasons, before answering the question
For the short stack orders, Hank needs to make 3 x 9 = 27 pancakes. For the big stack orders, he needs to make 5 x 6 = 30 pancakes. Altogether, Hank needs to make 27 + 30 = 57 pancakes. So the final answer is 57.