Risa baked cream, apple and strawberry biscuits. There were one-quarter as many strawberry biscuits as apple biscuits and an equal number of strawberry biscuits as cream biscuits. The cost of each biscuit is given as shown.
1 strawberry biscuit: $1.50
1 apple biscuit: $1.10
1 cream biscuit: $1.30
If she collected $288 from selling all the biscuits, how many apple biscuits were there?
|
Strawberry |
Apple |
Cream |
Ratio of biscuits |
1 u |
4 u |
1 u |
Cost of 1 biscuits |
$1.50 |
$1.10 |
$1.30 |
Total Value |
1.5 u |
4.4 u |
1.3 u |
Strawberry biscuits : Apple biscuits : Cream biscuits
1 : 4 : 1
Total amount earned from selling all the biscuits
= 1.5 u + 4.4 u + 1.3 u
= 7.2 u
7.2 u = 288
1 u = 288 ÷ 7.2 = 40
Number of apple biscuits
= 4 u
= 4 x 40
= 160
Answer(s): 160