Diana baked pandan, cream and apple cupcakes. There were one-third as many apple cupcakes as cream cupcakes and an equal number of apple cupcakes as pandan cupcakes. The cost of each cupcake is given as shown.
1 apple cupcake: $1.90
1 cream cupcake: $1.90
1 pandan cupcake: $1.40
If she collected $180 from selling all the cupcakes, how many cream cupcakes were there?
|
Apple |
Cream |
Pandan |
Ratio of cupcakes |
1 u |
3 u |
1 u |
Cost of 1 cupcakes |
$1.90 |
$1.90 |
$1.40 |
Total Value |
1.9 u |
5.7 u |
1.4 u |
Apple cupcakes : Cream cupcakes : Pandan cupcakes
1 : 3 : 1
Total amount earned from selling all the cupcakes
= 1.9 u + 5.7 u + 1.4 u
= 9 u
9 u = 180
1 u = 180 ÷ 9 = 20
Number of cream cupcakes
= 3 u
= 3 x 20
= 60
Answer(s): 60