Question

Jamie is ordering cupcakes for an office party. The top three flavors are chocolate/chocolate (x), strawberry/vanilla (y), and peanut butter/chocolate (z). 18 total cupcakes are purchased for $55.75. The chocolate/chocolate are $3 each, the strawberry/vanilla are $2.75 each, and the peanut butter/chocolate are $3.50 each. There are twice as many chocolate/chocolate cupcakes purchased as peanut butter/chocolate cupcakes. How many of each type of cupcake did Jamie purchase

Answer 1

Jamie purchases 4 chocolate (3.57), 7 strawberry/vanilla, and 7 peanut butter cupcakes for an office party.

How to write the given information as an expression or an equation?

The steps involved are:

• Observe the given data and notice the variable terms
• Use operators like multiplication or fraction if it consists of terms like twice or thrice or one fourth etc.
• Use the operators like addition or subtraction (more or less/greater or smaller) in between those variables

• Solve those equations for the required values.

Calculation:

Given that,

Jamie is ordering cupcakes for an office party.

There are three flavors - Chocolate, Strawberry/vanilla, and peanut flavors.

Jamie purchased a total of 18 cupcakes for $55.75

The cost for a single cupcake of each flavor is as follows:

Chocolate - $3

Strawberry  - $2.75

Peanut - $3.50

Consider the number of cupcakes of each flavor as x, y, and z respectively.

So, the equations we can write from this data are,

x + y + z = 18 and

3x + 2.75y + 3. 50z = 55.75

But it is given that,

There are twice as many chocolate cupcakes purchased as peanut butter cupcakes.

So, z = 2x

Then the above two equations become,

3x + y = 18 and

10x + 2.75y = 55.75

By solving these two equations we get,

x = 3.57 ≅ 4

y = 7.28 ≅ 7

Since we know that z = 2x,

⇒ z = 2 × 3.57 = 7.14 ≅ 7

So,

There are 4 chocolate, 7 strawberry, and 7 peanut cupcakes.

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