Opal baked coffee, mocca and strawberry cookies. There were one-quarter as many strawberry cookies as mocca cookies and an equal number of strawberry cookies as coffee cookies. The cost of each cookie is given as shown.
1 strawberry cookie: $1.20
1 mocca cookie: $1.40
1 coffee cookie: $1.20
If she collected $272 from selling all the cookies, how many mocca cookies were there?
|
Strawberry |
Mocca |
Coffee |
Ratio of cookies |
1 u |
4 u |
1 u |
Cost of 1 cookies |
$1.20 |
$1.40 |
$1.20 |
Total Value |
1.2 u |
5.6 u |
1.2 u |
Strawberry cookies : Mocca cookies : Coffee cookies
1 : 4 : 1
Total amount earned from selling all the cookies
= 1.2 u + 5.6 u + 1.2 u
= 8 u
8 u = 272
1 u = 272 ÷ 8 = 34
Number of mocca cookies
= 4 u
= 4 x 34
= 136
Answer(s): 136