Question

5. Mrs. Santiago is buying doughnuts for her

office. Each box contains 6 glazed, 4 cream
filled, and 2 chocolate flavored doughnuts. If
there were 20 total cream filled doughnuts,
how many chocolate doughnuts did she
buy? (Example 3)

Answer 1

She bought 10 chocolate doughnuts.

Explanation:

Mrs. Santiago is buying doughnuts for her office.

Each box contains 4 cream filled doughnuts.

She bought 20 total cream filled doughnuts.

Number of boxes which contains 20 cream filled doughnuts =
`(20)/(4)`

= 5 boxes

There are 2 chocolate flavored doughnuts in each boxes, so she bought chocolate flavored doughnuts = 5 × 2 = 10

She bought 10 chocolate doughnuts.

Answer 2

10 chocolate flavored doughnuts

Explanation:

20/4= 5 boxes

5x2= 10 chocolate doughnuts