Erika baked banana, strawberry and cream muffins. There were one-fifth as many cream muffins as strawberry muffins and an equal number of cream muffins as banana muffins. The cost of each muffin is given as shown.
1 cream muffin: $1.20
1 strawberry muffin: $1.70
1 banana muffin: $1.70
If she collected $228 from selling all the muffins, how many strawberry muffins were there?
|
Cream |
Strawberry |
Banana |
Ratio of muffins |
1 u |
5 u |
1 u |
Cost of 1 muffins |
$1.20 |
$1.70 |
$1.70 |
Total Value |
1.2 u |
8.5 u |
1.7 u |
Cream muffins : Strawberry muffins : Banana muffins
1 : 5 : 1
Total amount earned from selling all the muffins
= 1.2 u + 8.5 u + 1.7 u
= 11.4 u
11.4 u = 228
1 u = 228 ÷ 11.4 = 20
Number of strawberry muffins
= 5 u
= 5 x 20
= 100
Answer(s): 100