Question

Of the 1,500 muffins a bakery sold in one day, 1/3 were chocolate. how many chocolate muffins did the bakery sell?

Answer 1

Given that "Of the 1500 muffins a bakery sold in one day, 1/3 were chocolate."

So number of chocolate muffins can be found by product of total muffins and 1/3

which is given by

$\frac{1}{3}*1500=\frac{1*1500}{3}=\frac{1500}{3}=500$

Hence the number of chocolate muffins sold by bakery was 500.

Answer 2

The Bakery sold 500 chocolate muffins

Data;

• Total Number of Muffins = 1500
• Number of chocolate muffins = x

Number of Chocolate Muffins Sold

This can be calculated by multiplying the fraction by the total number of muffins sold.

The numbers of chocolate muffins sold can be calculated as 1/3 of the total number of muffins sold for the day.

This would become 1/3 of 1500

$\frac{1}{3} * 1500 = 500$

The Bakery sold 500 chocolate muffins

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