Jade baked apple, blueberry and cream biscuits. There were one-fifth as many cream biscuits as blueberry biscuits and an equal number of cream biscuits as apple biscuits. The cost of each biscuit is given as shown.
1 cream biscuit: $1.90
1 blueberry biscuit: $1.80
1 apple biscuit: $1.70
If she collected $252 from selling all the biscuits, how many blueberry biscuits were there?
|
Cream |
Blueberry |
Apple |
Ratio of biscuits |
1 u |
5 u |
1 u |
Cost of 1 biscuits |
$1.90 |
$1.80 |
$1.70 |
Total Value |
1.9 u |
9 u |
1.7 u |
Cream biscuits : Blueberry biscuits : Apple biscuits
1 : 5 : 1
Total amount earned from selling all the biscuits
= 1.9 u + 9 u + 1.7 u
= 12.6 u
12.6 u = 252
1 u = 252 ÷ 12.6 = 20
Number of blueberry biscuits
= 5 u
= 5 x 20
= 100
Answer(s): 100