Jen baked mocca, blueberry and cream muffins. There were one-quarter as many cream muffins as blueberry muffins and an equal number of cream muffins as mocca muffins. The cost of each muffin is given as shown.
1 cream muffin: $1.90
1 blueberry muffin: $1.70
1 mocca muffin: $1.10
If she collected $196 from selling all the muffins, how many blueberry muffins were there?
|
Cream |
Blueberry |
Mocca |
Ratio of muffins |
1 u |
4 u |
1 u |
Cost of 1 muffins |
$1.90 |
$1.70 |
$1.10 |
Total Value |
1.9 u |
6.8 u |
1.1 u |
Cream muffins : Blueberry muffins : Mocca muffins
1 : 4 : 1
Total amount earned from selling all the muffins
= 1.9 u + 6.8 u + 1.1 u
= 9.8 u
9.8 u = 196
1 u = 196 ÷ 9.8 = 20
Number of blueberry muffins
= 4 u
= 4 x 20
= 80
Answer(s): 80