Mrs Su baked some cheese muffins and raspberry muffins. She sold 35\frac{3}{5} of the cheese muffins and 25\frac{2}{5} of the raspberry muffins. 811\tfrac{8}{11} of the muffins left were cheese muffins. Mrs Su sold a total of 760 muffins.

  1. (a)

    What fraction of the muffins were sold?

    Answer: (a) ___

  2. (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 811\frac{8}{11} of the muffins left were cheese muffins, the remaining 311\frac{3}{11} were raspberry muffins.
Ratio of cheese muffins left to raspberry muffins left = 8:38 : 3.

2. Express the total number of each type of muffin in units.

Fraction of cheese muffins left = 1−35=251 - \frac{3}{5} = \frac{2}{5}.
Fraction of raspberry muffins left = 1−25=351 - \frac{2}{5} = \frac{3}{5}.
Let 25\frac{2}{5} of cheese muffins be 88 units. Then 15\frac{1}{5} of cheese muffins is 44 units, so total cheese muffins = 5×4=205 \times 4 = 20 units.
Let 35\frac{3}{5} of raspberry muffins be 33 units. Then 15\frac{1}{5} of raspberry muffins is 11 unit, so total raspberry muffins = 5×1=55 \times 1 = 5 units.

3. Calculate the total number of muffins sold and the total baked in units, then find the fraction sold.

Total muffins baked = 20+5=2520 + 5 = 25 units.
Cheese muffins sold = 35×20=12\frac{3}{5} \times 20 = 12 units.
Raspberry muffins sold = 25×5=2\frac{2}{5} \times 5 = 2 units.
Total muffins sold = 12+2=1412 + 2 = 14 units.
Fraction of muffins sold = 1425\frac{14}{25}.

Answer

1425\frac{14}{25}

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