Question

PART A: At the bakery, the daily ratio of cookie sales to donut sales is 4 to 3. Cookies and donuts cost the same amount. If the bakery earned $375.00 on Tuesday from the sale of cookies, write a proportion that could be used to find the amount of money that came from the sale of donuts on Tuesday.

PART B: Use your proportion to find how much money the bakery earned from the sale of donuts on Tuesday.

Answer 1

Their ratio would be: Cookie / Donuts = 4/3Let, the amount of money earned from Donuts = xIt would be: 4/3 = 375 / xx = 375/4 * 3x = 1125/4x = 281.25