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#10945

equations

word problem

hard

45 sec

A baker made a total of 120 pastries, consisting of cookies and muffins. The equation $3 c + 5 m = 410$ represents the total cost, in cents, of the pastries, where $c$ is the number of cookies and $m$ is the number of muffins. What is the difference, in cents, between the cost of one muffin and the cost of one cookie?

• Up to 5 characters (6 if negative). Only numbers, decimal (.), fraction (/), negative (-).
• Fractions must be in lowest terms.
• Mixed numbers must be converted to improper fractions.