Risa baked 288 puffs. ⁵₈ of the puffs were butter cream puffs. The rest were cherry puffs. She gave an equal number of butter cream puffs and cherry puffs away and had 4 times as many butter cream puffs as cherry puffs left. How many puffs did she give away?

	Butter cream puffs	Cherry puffs	Difference
Before	5x3 = 15 u	3x3 = 9 u	2x3 = 6 u
Change	- 7 u	- 7 u
After	4x2 = 8 u	1x2 = 2 u	3x2 = 6 u

Since Risa gave away an equal number of butter cream puffs and cherry puffs, the difference in the number of butter cream puffs and cherry puffs remains unchanged.  Make the difference in the butter cream puffs and cherry puffs the same.  LCM of 2 and 3 is 6.

Total number of puffs at first
= 15 u + 9 u
= 24 u

24 u = 288

1 u = 288 ÷ 24 = 12

Number of puffs that Risa gave away
= 7 u + 7 u
= 14 u
= 14 x 12 
= 168

Answer(s): 168