Jen baked banana, coffee and cheese biscuits. There were one-quarter as many cheese biscuits as coffee biscuits and an equal number of cheese biscuits as banana biscuits. The cost of each biscuit is given as shown.
1 cheese biscuit: $1.80
1 coffee biscuit: $1.10
1 banana biscuit: $1.80
If she collected $208 from selling all the biscuits, how many coffee biscuits were there?
|
Cheese |
Coffee |
Banana |
Ratio of biscuits |
1 u |
4 u |
1 u |
Cost of 1 biscuits |
$1.80 |
$1.10 |
$1.80 |
Total Value |
1.8 u |
4.4 u |
1.8 u |
Cheese biscuits : Coffee biscuits : Banana biscuits
1 : 4 : 1
Total amount earned from selling all the biscuits
= 1.8 u + 4.4 u + 1.8 u
= 8 u
8 u = 208
1 u = 208 ÷ 8 = 26
Number of coffee biscuits
= 4 u
= 4 x 26
= 104
Answer(s): 104