The Marine Discovery Aquarium sells ocean-themed cookies in their gift shop. Last month, they sold 65 shark cookies and 85 clown fish cookies. The cookies were so popular that they want to order more cookies this month. They plan to order 170 clown fish cookies this month.
If they keep the same ratio, how many shark cookies should they order this month?
To find out how many shark cookies they should order this month, we need to determine the ratio of shark cookies sold to clown fish cookies sold last month.
The ratio is 65 shark cookies / 85 clown fish cookies = 13/17.
Since they plan to order 170 clown fish cookies this month, we can set up the following proportion to find out how many shark cookies they should order:
13/17 = x/170.
Cross multiplying, we get:
17x = 13 * 170,
17x = 2210.
Dividing both sides by 17, we find:
x = 2210 / 17,
x ≈ 130.
Therefore, they should order approximately 130 shark cookies this month.