Question

In one week the owner of Carly's Coffeehouse found that the number of orders for bagels was 2/3 the number of orders for chocolate scones. If the total number of orders for the two items was 525 how orders were placed for bagels?

Answer 1

210

Explanation:

We can write the ratio as ...

bagels : scones = 2 : 3

Then bagels are 2/(2+3) = 2/5 of the total.

# bagels = (2/5)(525)

# bagels = 210