Mrs Su baked some cheese muffins and raspberry muffins. She sold of the cheese muffins and of the raspberry muffins. of the muffins left were cheese muffins. Mrs Su sold a total of 760 muffins.
- (a)
What fraction of the muffins were sold?
Answer: (a) ___
- (b)
How many muffins did Mrs Su bake?
Answer: (b) ___
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13(a)
1. Find the ratio of the number of cheese muffins left to raspberry muffins left.
Since of the muffins left were cheese muffins, the remaining were raspberry muffins.
Ratio of cheese muffins left to raspberry muffins left = .
2. Express the total number of each type of muffin in units.
Fraction of cheese muffins left = .
Fraction of raspberry muffins left = .
Let of cheese muffins be units. Then of cheese muffins is units, so total cheese muffins = units.
Let of raspberry muffins be units. Then of raspberry muffins is unit, so total raspberry muffins = units.
3. Calculate the total number of muffins sold and the total baked in units, then find the fraction sold.
Total muffins baked = units.
Cheese muffins sold = units.
Raspberry muffins sold = units.
Total muffins sold = units.
Fraction of muffins sold = .
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