Question

Mrs.Butter is a wonderful baker and she makes delicious cookies, Last Saturday she sold 72 peanut harger cookies. She also sold seme oatmeal cookies. If the ratio of peanut butter cookies sold to oatmeal okies sold was 9:1. how many peanut butter and oatmeal cookies did she sell altogether?​

Answer 1

she sold 8 oatmeal cookies

total = 72+8=80 cookies sold

Explanation:

72 at a 9:1 ratio, would be 72:8

so she sold 8 oatmeal cookies

total = 72+8=80 cookies sold

Further explanation:

for every 9 PB cookies she sold, she sold one OM cookie.

She sold 72 PB cookies, so she sold 8 OM cookies because 72/9=8.