Question

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

Answer 1

To find out how much money came from the sale of donuts on Tuesday, write a simple proportion that will look like this:

`(4)/(375) = (3)/(?)`

`(3 * 375)/(4) = (1125)/(4) = 281.25`
The amount of money earned by donut sales on Tuesday was $281.25.