A bakery made some chocolate, chicken and lotus paste muffins. For every 2 chocolate muffins that were made, 1 lotus paste muffin were made. For every 8 chocolate muffins that were made, 7 chicken muffins were made.
- Find the ratio of the number of chocolate muffins to chicken muffins to lotus paste muffins made.
- After the bakery made another 31 lotus paste muffins, 25% of the muffins now were lotus paste muffins. How many chocolate muffins did the bakery make?
(a)
Chocolate |
Chicken |
Lotus Paste |
2x4 |
|
1x4 |
8x1 |
7x1 |
|
8 u |
7 u |
4 u |
Chocolate : Chicken : Lotus Paste
8 : 7 : 4
(b)
|
Chocolate |
Chicken |
Lotus Paste |
Before |
15 u |
4 u |
Change |
No change |
+ 31 |
After |
3x5 = 15 u |
1x5 = 5 u |
Total number of chocolate and chicken muffins
= 7 u + 8 u
= 15 u
Increase in the number of lotus paste muffins
= 5 u - 4 u
= 1 u
1 u = 31
Number of chocolate muffins
= 8 u
= 8 x 31
= 248
Answer(s): (a) 8 : 7 : 4 ; (b) 248