A bakery made some sardine, egg and mushroom muffins. For every 2 sardine muffins that were made, 1 mushroom muffin were made. For every 5 sardine muffins that were made, 4 egg muffins were made.
- Find the ratio of the number of sardine muffins to egg muffins to mushroom muffins made.
- After the bakery made another 79 mushroom muffins, 25% of the muffins now were mushroom muffins. How many sardine muffins did the bakery make?
(a)
Sardine |
Egg |
Mushroom |
2x5 |
|
1x5 |
5x2 |
4x2 |
|
10 u |
8 u |
5 u |
Sardine : Egg : Mushroom
10 : 8 : 5
(b)
|
Sardine |
Egg |
Mushroom |
Before |
18 u |
5 u |
Change |
No change |
+ 79 |
After |
3x6 = 18 u |
1x6 = 6 u |
Total number of sardine and egg muffins
= 8 u + 10 u
= 18 u
Increase in the number of mushroom muffins
= 6 u - 5 u
= 1 u
1 u = 79
Number of sardine muffins
= 10 u
= 10 x 79
= 790
Answer(s): (a) 10 : 8 : 5 ; (b) 790