document.write( "Question 1204288: Jessica bought some cakes from a bakery. 1/5 of them were chocolate cakes and the rest were vanilla cakes and strawberry cakes. She bought 18 strawberry cakes. There were 24 more vanilla cakes than chocolate cakes.
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document.write( "(a) What fraction of the cakes bought were vanilla and strawberry cakes?
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document.write( "(b) How many vanilla cakes did Jessica buy? \n" );
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Algebra.Com's Answer #840444 by greenestamps(13200)![]() ![]() You can put this solution on YOUR website! \n" ); document.write( "Let c = number of chocolate cakes \n" ); document.write( "Then c+24 = number of vanilla cakes \n" ); document.write( "The number of strawberry cakes is given as 18 \n" ); document.write( "The chocolate cakes were 1/5 of the total, so the vanilla and strawberry cakes were 4/5 of the total. That means the total number of vanilla and strawberry cakes was 4 times the number of chocolate cakes: \n" ); document.write( "(c+24)+18 = 4(c) \n" ); document.write( "c+42 = 4c \n" ); document.write( "42 = 3c \n" ); document.write( "c = 14 \n" ); document.write( "ANSWERS: \n" ); document.write( "(a) 4/5 \n" ); document.write( "(b) c+24 = 38 \n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( " |