Garry, Harry and Barry managed to finish a whole pack of muffin! Garry ate 3 1/5 muffins, Harry ate 4 3/5 while Barry ate 4 1/5. How many muffins were originally in the pack?

Together, Gary, Harry, and Barry finish all the muffins. However much they each ate, their sum is the number of muffins in the pack originally.

We're told how much Garry, Harry and Barry ate. So, all we need to do to find how many muffins their were originally is to find the sum of the fractions given!

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Computing the Sum

The quantities in which the boys ate are in mixed fractions, we can find the sum of the fraction and integer parts separately before adding them together.

[tex]\dfrac{1}{5} +\dfrac{3}{5} +\dfrac{1}{5} =\dfrac{5}{5}=1[/tex]

[tex]3+4+4=11[/tex]

[tex]1+11=12[/tex]

This is plausible since a package of muffins is always given whole, never would a box of five and one-half of muffins be seen in a local store.

So, 12 is our final answer.