<PRE><B>Question 1186897</B>
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&quot;The rest of the muffins were vanilla and blueberry in the ratio of 5:7&quot;&lt;br&gt;
Given that ratio...&lt;br&gt;
Let 5x = # of vanilla muffins
Let 7x = # of blueberry muffins&lt;br&gt;
(NOTE: That is almost always a good way to start on a problem where a ratio like 5:7 is given.)&lt;br&gt;
&quot;Half of the muffins were chocolate.&quot;&lt;br&gt;
That means the number of chocolate muffins is equal to the total number of vanilla and blueberry muffins.  So...&lt;br&gt;
Let 12x = # of chocolate muffins&lt;br&gt;
&quot;There were 1800 more chocolate muffins than blueberry muffins.&quot;&lt;br&gt;
Change to wording so it reads exactly like an algebraic equation:&lt;br&gt;
The number of chocolate muffins was 1800 more than the number of blueberry muffins.&lt;br&gt;
12x = 7x+1800&lt;br&gt;
Solve for x using basic algebra.  Then the answer (total number of muffins) is 24x.&lt;br&gt;
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