SOLUTION: Janil baked an equal number of green tea and coconut cookies. After giving away 196
green tea cookies and 276 coconut cookies, the ratio of the number of green tea cookies
left
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green tea cookies and 276 coconut cookies, the ratio of the number of green tea cookies
left
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Question 1184420: Janil baked an equal number of green tea and coconut cookies. After giving away 196
green tea cookies and 276 coconut cookies, the ratio of the number of green tea cookies
left to the number of coconut cookies left was 6:4. What was the total number of green
tea and coconut cookies left?
(Typo) Answer by ikleyn(52817) (Show Source):
Let x be the number of one kind of cookies - then the other kind quantity is x, too.
From the problem, you have this equation
= .
To solve this equation, first cross-multiply; then simplify.
The rest is simple arithmetic.
