Mrs Lau baked some cupcakes of three flavours, which were apricot, chocolate chip and cherry. She baked four times as many apricot cupcakes as chocolate chip cupcakes and thrice as many cherry cupcakes as apricot cupcake. Given that she baked 88 more cherry cupcakes than chocolate chip cupcakes, how many cupcakes did she bake?
Number of chocolate chip cupcakes = 1 u
Number of apricot cupcakes = 4 u
Number of cherry cupcakes = 3 x 4 u = 12 u

Number of more cherry cupcakes than chocolate chip cupcakes
= 12 u - 1 u 
= 11 u

11 u = 88

1 u = 88 ÷ 11 = 8

Number of apricot cupcakes
= 4 u
= 4 x 8
= 32

Number of cherry cupcakes
= 12 u
= 12 x 8
= 96

Total number of cupcakes that he baked
= 8 + 32 + 96
= 136

Answer(s): 136