The wind blew away 12 of your muffins. That was 3/7 of all of them. How many are left?
12 is 3/7,
so 4 is 1/7
Now how much would you pay?
To find out how many muffins are left after 12 were blown away by the wind, we need to determine the total number of muffins before any were lost. We are told that 3/7 of all the muffins were blown away. Let's use algebra to solve this problem step by step:
Let's assume the total number of muffins you had initially is represented by "x."
According to the problem, 3/7 of all the muffins were blown away. We can express this as a fraction: (3/7) * x.
We know that this equals 12, as 12 muffins were blown away. So we can set up the equation:
(3/7) * x = 12
To solve for x, we can multiply both sides of the equation by the reciprocal of 3/7, which is 7/3:
(3/7) * x * (7/3) = 12 * (7/3)
This simplifies to:
x = 84/7
Dividing both the numerator and denominator by 7, we get:
x = 12
Therefore, you initially had 12 muffins.
To find out how many are left after 12 were blown away, we need to subtract 12 from the initial number:
12 - 12 = 0
Therefore, there are no muffins left after losing 12 due to the wind blowing them away.