Julie baked pandan, cheese and strawberry muffins. There were one-quarter as many strawberry muffins as cheese muffins and an equal number of strawberry muffins as pandan muffins. The cost of each muffin is given as shown.
1 strawberry muffin: $1.20
1 cheese muffin: $1.60
1 pandan muffin: $1.80
If she collected $282 from selling all the muffins, how many cheese muffins were there?
|
Strawberry |
Cheese |
Pandan |
Ratio of muffins |
1 u |
4 u |
1 u |
Cost of 1 muffins |
$1.20 |
$1.60 |
$1.80 |
Total Value |
1.2 u |
6.4 u |
1.8 u |
Strawberry muffins : Cheese muffins : Pandan muffins
1 : 4 : 1
Total amount earned from selling all the muffins
= 1.2 u + 6.4 u + 1.8 u
= 9.4 u
9.4 u = 282
1 u = 282 ÷ 9.4 = 30
Number of cheese muffins
= 4 u
= 4 x 30
= 120
Answer(s): 120