SOLUTION: Hi Can you please explain this question. Ms Teo made some muffins to sell. 4/5 of them were chocolate muffins and the rest were blueberry muffins. After selling 84 blueberry m

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Question 1151921: Hi
Can you please explain this question.
Ms Teo made some muffins to sell. 4/5 of them were chocolate muffins and the rest were blueberry muffins. After selling 84 blueberry muffins and 5/8 of the chocolate muffins, she had 2/5 of the muffins left. How many muffins did Ms Teo sell?

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Answer by ikleyn(52851)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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Let x be the total number of muffins Ms Teo made.


Of them,  the number of the chocolate muffins is  ;

          the number of the blueberry muffins is  .


After selling 84 blueberry muffins and   of the chocolate muffins,    of the muffin left


     -  +  = .


Solve the equation and find x.


Then   is your answer.


Answer by MathTherapy(10555)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Hi
Can you please explain this question.
Ms Teo made some muffins to sell. 4/5 of them were chocolate muffins and the rest were blueberry muffins. After selling 84 blueberry muffins and 5/8 of the chocolate muffins, she had 2/5 of the muffins left. How many muffins did Ms Teo sell?
Let original number of muffins be M
Then , or of muffins were chocolate, and so, were blueberry
Selling of chocolate means that of chocolate muffins were sold
After selling 84 blueberry and chocolate, she had left, so of muffins were sold
We then get:
840 + 5M = 6M ------- Multiplying by LCD, 10
840 = 6M - 5M
M, or original number of muffins = 840
As of muffins were sold, then of the muffins were sold
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