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prealgebra intermediate

Problem

A baker bakes a batch of muffins and splits the batch evenly onto six different trays. She then adds five croissants to each tray. If each tray now contains at least twenty baked goods, what is the least possible number of muffins in the baker's original batch?
Solution
Let represent the total number of muffins in the original batch. Hence, each tray contains muffins and croissants, for a total of baked goods. We know that this value is at least , hence we have the inequality To solve, we first subtract from both sides of the inequality, yielding , and then multiply both sides by to get

Therefore the original batch contained at least muffins.
Final answer
90