Question

A baker made 5 trays of curry puffs. There was an equal number of curry puffs on each tray. He repacked all the curry puffs into boxes of 10. After selling half the boxes at $3 per box, he collected $87. How many curry puffs were there on each tray at first?​

Answer 1

Answer:

Let the number of fish curry puffs is x and the number of chicken curry puff is y.

Joyce made 5 times as many chicken curry puffs-as fish curry puffs, Therefore.

5x = y

There were 2390 chicken curry puffs.

Substitute y = 2390 in above equation.

5x = 23905x=2390

x =\frac{2390}{5}x=

5

2390

x =478x=478

Thus, Joyce made 478 fish curry puffs. It is given that, there were