Ivory baked pandan, mocca and strawberry cupcakes. There were one-third as many strawberry cupcakes as mocca cupcakes and an equal number of strawberry cupcakes as pandan cupcakes. The cost of each cupcake is given as shown.
1 strawberry cupcake: $1.20
1 mocca cupcake: $1.10
1 pandan cupcake: $1.50
If she collected $300 from selling all the cupcakes, how many mocca cupcakes were there?
|
Strawberry |
Mocca |
Pandan |
Ratio of cupcakes |
1 u |
3 u |
1 u |
Cost of 1 cupcakes |
$1.20 |
$1.10 |
$1.50 |
Total Value |
1.2 u |
3.3 u |
1.5 u |
Strawberry cupcakes : Mocca cupcakes : Pandan cupcakes
1 : 3 : 1
Total amount earned from selling all the cupcakes
= 1.2 u + 3.3 u + 1.5 u
= 6 u
6 u = 300
1 u = 300 ÷ 6 = 50
Number of mocca cupcakes
= 3 u
= 3 x 50
= 150
Answer(s): 150