Question

At a bakery, a baker prepares 6 dozen blueberry muffins for every 5 dozen apple muffins. If the baker prepares 16 dozen blueberry muffins, how many dozen apple muffins will he prepare? Can you please explain how to do this.

Answer 1

13 apple muffins dozens

Explanation:

I would write a proportion, I can't use a fraction bar so they will just be on top of each other:

Blueberry Muffins 6

Apple Muffins 5

For every 6 Blueberry muffins there are 5 apple muffins (dozens)

So when he makes 16 blueberry muffins (dozens)

You write it next to the '6' because it's talking about blueberry muffin dozens.

The proportion now:

Blueberry Muffins 6 16

Apple Muffins 5 x

To find x, or the number of apple muffin dozens, you multiply 16 * 5, which is

80.

Then divide by 6.

80/6= 13.333

You can't have .333 of a dozen, so round it to 13.

***ANSWER***

He prepared 13 Apple muffin dozens.

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