A lemonade stand sold only small and large cups of lemonade

manalq8 · **Posted:** Fri Nov 25, 2011 3:09 pm


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A lemonade stand sold only small and large cups of lemonade on Tuesday. 3/5 of the cups sold were small and the rest were large. If the large cups were sold for 7/6 as much as the small cups, what fraction of Tuesday's total revenue was from the sale of large cups?

A. 7/16
B. 7/15
C. 10/21
D. 17/35
E. 1/2

[Reveal] Spoiler: OA

A

Bunuel · **Posted:** Sun Feb 05, 2012 3:27 pm

manalq8 wrote:

A lemonade stand sold only small and large cups of lemonade on Tuesday. 3/5 of the cups sold were small and the rest were large. If the large cups were sold for 7/6 as much as the small cups, what fraction of Tuesday's total revenue was from the sale of large cups?

A. 7/16
B. 7/15
C. 10/21
D. 17/35
E. 1/2

This problem is very good example how easy and quick plug-in method might be.

Let the total # of cups be 10.
# of small cups sold 3/5*10=6;
# of large cups sold 10-6=4;

Let the price of small cup be $6, then the price of larges cup would be 7/6*6=$7;

Revenue from small cups: 6*$6=$36;
Revenue from large cups cups: 4*$7=$28;

Fraction of total revenue from large cups: 28/(36+28)=7/16.

Answer: A.

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