Question

A company ordered $400 worth of muffins. Bran muffins cost $2 each and blueberry muffins cost $4 each. If the company ordered twice as many blueberry muffins as bran muffins , how many muffins were ordered total

Answer 1

Answer:

40 Bran Muffins

80 Blueberry Muffins

Explanation:

Let the number of Bran muffins ordered = x

The number of Blueberry muffins ordered = 2x (it is given that the number of blueberry muffins is twice the number of bran muffins)

The cost of Bran muffins ordered = Number of Bran muffins * cost of 1 muffin

Cost of Bran muffins ordered = x * 2

Cost of Bran Muffins ordered = $ 2x

The cost of Blueberry muffins ordered = Number of Blueberry muffins * Cost  of 1 blueberry muffin

Cost of Blueberry muffins ordered = 2x * 4

Cost of Blueberry muffins ordered = $ 8x

Since the sum of costs of Blueberry and Bran muffins is $400

Cost of Bran muffins + Cost of Blueberry muffins ordered = 400

2x + 8x = 400

10x = 400

x  = 40

Hence, the number of Bran muffins ordered is 40

we are told that the number of Blueberry muffins is twice the number of Bran muffins

So,

Blueberry muffins  = Bran muffins * 2

Blueberry Muffins = 40 * 2

Blueberry muffins = 80

So, the number of Blueberry muffins is 80