Question

19. A bakery sold three kinds of muffins on Monday. The ratio of cranberry to blueberry muffins sold was 2/3 . The ratio of blueberry to cinnamon muffins sold was 1. If 60 blueberry muffins were sold on Monday, how 4/1 many more cranberry muffins than cinnamon muffins did the bakery sell? *

Answer 1

25

Explanation:

Answer 2

25

Explanation:

The ratio of cranberry to blueberry muffins sold was 2/3.

This means that for every 3 blueberry muffins, 2 cranberry muffins were sold.

The ratio of blueberry to cinnamon muffins sold was 4/1.

This means that for every cinnamon muffin, 4 blueberry muffins were sold.

In other words, the ratio of cinnamon muffins to blueberry was 1/4.

60 blueberry muffins were sold on Monday.

This means that the number of cranberry muffins sold was:

2/3 * 60 = 40 cranberry muffins

This also means that the number of cinnamon muffins sold was:

1/4 * 60 = 15 cinnamon muffins

To find how many more cranberry muffins were sold than cinnamon muffins:

40 - 15 = 25 muffins

25 more cranberry muffins were sold.