A bakery made some sardine, egg and mushroom muffins. For every 2 sardine muffins that were made, 1 mushroom muffin were made. For every 8 sardine muffins that were made, 7 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 89 mushroom muffins, 25% of the muffins now were mushroom muffins. How many sardine muffins did the bakery make?
(a)
Sardine |
Egg |
Mushroom |
2x4 |
|
1x4 |
8x1 |
7x1 |
|
8 u |
7 u |
4 u |
Sardine : Egg : Mushroom
8 : 7 : 4
(b)
|
Sardine |
Egg |
Mushroom |
Before |
15 u |
4 u |
Change |
No change |
+ 89 |
After |
3x5 = 15 u |
1x5 = 5 u |
Total number of sardine and egg muffins
= 7 u + 8 u
= 15 u
Increase in the number of mushroom muffins
= 5 u - 4 u
= 1 u
1 u = 89
Number of sardine muffins
= 8 u
= 8 x 89
= 712
Answer(s): (a) 8 : 7 : 4 ; (b) 712