In a container, there are sweets of 3 colours, brown, green and purple. There are 240 more green sweets than purple sweets. The number of purple sweets is ¹₄ more than the brown sweets. Given that the number of purple sweets is 25% of the total number of sweets in the container, how many more green sweets are there than brown sweets?

Brown sweets	Green sweets	Purple sweets
	1 u + 240	1 u
4x5		5x5
75%		25%
20%	55%	25%

1 + ¹₄ = ⁴₄ + ¹₄ = ⁵₄

Yellow sweets : Purple sweets = 4 : 5

The number of purple sweets is repeated.  Make the number of purple sweets the same.

5 x 5 = 25%

Total number of brown sweets and green sweets in percent
= 100% - 25%
= 75%

Number of green sweets in percent
= 75% - 20%
= 55%

Number of more green sweets than purple sweets in percent
= 55% - 20%
= 30%

30% = 240

1% = 240 ÷ 30 = 8

Number of more green sweets than brown sweets
= 55% - 20%
= 35%
= 35 x 8
= 280

Answer(s): 280