maggie baked some muffins 2/3 were bran muffins and the rest were cranberry muffins
she sold 120 cranberry muffins and 7/8 of her bran muffins she now has 1/6 of her muffins left how many muffins did she sell?

Lord I have a degree in mathematics and I don’t think you have enough info tbh.

You know the following things.
1. 2/3 of the muffins are bran, 1/3 cranberry
2. Sold 120 cranberry muffins, sold 7/8 of bran muffins
3. Still has 1/6 of total muffins remaining

I thought maybe 120 cranberry /.33 = 360 total
This 7/8 * 240 = 210
Thus sold = 120 + 210 = 330
Remaining = 360-330 = 30/360 = has

yea the principle sent my kid this home today

Yeah i agree with shinedown. I got this far and figured there wasn't enough to get it done

2/3 B

1/3 C

120 C

7/12 B


120 C + 7/12 B = 1/6 T

720 C + 3.5B = T

B = (T-720)/3.5

240 + (7/3)B = T

Indeed problem is your left with 1/12 remaining not 1/6 as the problem stated. I had the numbers correct they just gave us the wrong initial conditions.

Sold = 400.

You need to isolate the remaining muffins in terms of Total (T) muffins

We know that Remaining = 1/6 T

Bran = B = 2/3 T
Cranberry = C = 1/3 T

BranRemaining = (1 - 7/8)B = 1/8 B
CranRemaining = C - 120

Write all this in an equation in terms of T in order to find the total.

Remaining = BranRemaining + CranRemaining
1/6 T = (1/8)(2/3) T + 1/3 T - 120

Once you isolate T to one side, you can solve for T = 480.

You then need to plug in T to find out the # Sold. This comes from the problem: 7/8 Bran sold and 120 Cranberry sold.

Sold = 7/8 B + 120
Sold = (7/8)(2/3) T + 120
Sold = (7/8)(2/3)(480) + 120
Sold = 400



You can double-check the remaining vs. # sold.
Total - Sold = Remaining
480 - 400 = 80

80/480 = 1/6

This post was edited by timmayX on Feb 8 2018 10:48am

who tf eat bran muffins

same
feelsbadman

There’s enough info, but it seems like an advanced algebra problem for an 11yr old. Especially with the common core math that’s been taught the past few years.

Right I heard they don't even teach kids how to do long division anymore