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10 January, 08:41

When a bakery opened this morning, the ratio of the number of pineapple muffins to mango muffins was 3:2. After 144 pineapple muffins were sold, the ratio of the number of pineapple to mango muffins changed to 3:5. How many pineapple muffins were there when the bakery opened this morning?

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  1. 10 January, 09:04
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    So

    pinaple:mango=3:2

    after 144 pinaple was sold (-144 pinaple)

    the ratio changed to 3:5

    one way is to convert the second number of both ratios to the same number, since they (mangos) didn't change

    3:2=15:10

    3:5=6:10

    so

    15 pinaple units-144=6 pinaple units

    add 144 to both sides

    15p=6p+144

    subtract 6p (pinaple units) from bothsides

    9p=144

    divide both sides by 9

    pinaple unit=16

    there were 15 units in the begining so

    in the beginning, ther were 15 times 16 pinaples or 240 pinaple muffins

    240 is the answer
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