1) Keith and shawn each have some money. If keith spends $38, the ratio of the amount of money Keith has to the amount of money Shawn has will become 2:5. If Shawn spends $38, the ratio will become 8:13. How much money does each boy have?
2) In a pastry shop, the number of cales was twice the number of cream puffs. After 90 cakes and 42 cream puffs were sold, the ratio of the number of cakes left to the number of cream puffs left was 2:5. How many cakes and cream puffs were in the shop at first?
3) The ratio of the number of muffins to the number of pies in a bakery was 4:1. After another 63 muffins and 46 pies were baked, the ratio become 3:1. How many muffins and pies were there in the bakery at first?
i agree i fell asleep after reading 1)
i felt hungry after reading..i dun understand why a 12 kid should suffer from difficult questions..
haha ure pretty funny little guy. ill give u the first answer as keith having 152 and shawn having 60.8. take the answer or leave it. i dont care.
i m not a guy..me a lady :) ty for ur answer, i shall see if its correct anot..kamsia
haha anytime little lady. Let me know if its right! I got my my canadian university housemate to take a look at a 12 yr math problem from singapore, to show him the stuff we had to deal with. He's a math minor btw, so if the answers wrong, tell me. I wanna make fun of him. And it took him 15min to figure it out. haha. some math minor.....
u can laughed or make fun at ur 'minor maths fren' but dun laugh too loud becoz he got it 50% correct, keith indeed got 152 but Shawn's answer is 285..i got the working from an 'old' colleague of mine BUT he brain is still young lol!! tx anyway!!