Members of the chess club help a bake sale to raise money. Cupcakes and cookies were sold. Cupcakes were sold for $1 each. Cookies were sold for $0.50 each. The members sold a total of 288 items. Of the items sold, 2 over 3 were cupcakes and the remaining items were cookies. How much money did the chess club members raise from the cookies that were sold?

Do to determine how many cupcakes were sold out of the 288 items.

Subtract the cupcakes from the whole to determine how many cookies were sold out of the 288 items 288-192=96

Do to determine how much money was made from each sale of the cookies.

The chess club members raised $48 from the cookies that were sold.  

The chess club members raised $192 from the cupcakes that were sold.

The chess club members made $240 in total from the bake sale.

three-fourths of an hour

36÷48=0.75

0.75=

3 is greater then both of those numbers