October 9, 2012

A Hard Problem

Sorry the title may have scared you but it's not a bad problem.  It's a math problem.  I'm learning stuff like p+4+p+3+p = 72  and I have to figure out what the p's 3's and 4's make and get my answer.  Here's  a problem.  There are 3 types of doughnuts at a store: sprinkled, chocolate, and powdered.  There are 4 times as many chocolate as powdered and 3 times as many sprinkled as powdered.   There is 72 total. There are 3 answers to this but I'll give you one. P stands for 1.  3+4 =7- 7+1 =8-8 x what = 72