Gem baked cheese, blueberry and cream macarons. There were one-quarter as many cream macarons as blueberry macarons and an equal number of cream macarons as cheese macarons. The cost of each macaron is given as shown.
1 cream macaron: $1.40
1 blueberry macaron: $1.70
1 cheese macaron: $1.80
If she collected $140 from selling all the macarons, how many blueberry macarons were there?
|
Cream |
Blueberry |
Cheese |
Ratio of macarons |
1 u |
4 u |
1 u |
Cost of 1 macarons |
$1.40 |
$1.70 |
$1.80 |
Total Value |
1.4 u |
6.8 u |
1.8 u |
Cream macarons : Blueberry macarons : Cheese macarons
1 : 4 : 1
Total amount earned from selling all the macarons
= 1.4 u + 6.8 u + 1.8 u
= 10 u
10 u = 140
1 u = 140 ÷ 10 = 14
Number of blueberry macarons
= 4 u
= 4 x 14
= 56
Answer(s): 56