Week 380 (31st January 2025)

A restaurant has made 100 fortune cookies to celebrate Chinese New Year.   

They are put into packets, each holding 6 cookies.   

Each packet of 6 cookies is sold for £1.35.   

The restaurant sells all the packets.   

Work out how much money the restaurant made from selling all the packets of fortune cookies. 

Answer: 

First you find how many cookies are in each packet by doing 100/6 which is 16 and ⅔.

However, since you can’t have ⅔ of a packet you round it down to 16. 

Then to find total profit you do 16 x 1.35 as all packets are sold at £1.35 and you get £21.60.