Jaslyn baked coffee, banana and cream biscuits. There were half as many cream biscuits as banana biscuits and an equal number of cream biscuits as coffee biscuits. The cost of each biscuit is given as shown.
1 cream biscuit: $1.20
1 banana biscuit: $1.40
1 coffee biscuit: $1.20
If she collected $208 from selling all the biscuits, how many banana biscuits were there?
|
Cream |
Banana |
Coffee |
Ratio of biscuits |
1 u |
2 u |
1 u |
Cost of 1 biscuits |
$1.20 |
$1.40 |
$1.20 |
Total Value |
1.2 u |
2.8 u |
1.2 u |
Cream biscuits : Banana biscuits : Coffee biscuits
1 : 2 : 1
Total amount earned from selling all the biscuits
= 1.2 u + 2.8 u + 1.2 u
= 5.2 u
5.2 u = 208
1 u = 208 ÷ 5.2 = 40
Number of banana biscuits
= 2 u
= 2 x 40
= 80
Answer(s): 80