Sunday, 28 September 2014
Apples Problem
My answer was 1,900 apples.
This is because since the farmer said that every third apple would be rotten, ⅓ of the 6,000 apples would be no good. ⅓ of 6,000 is 2,000. The farmer also said that every fourth apple would be bruised, ¼ of the 6,000 apples is 1,500 apples. Lastly, he said the 1/10 of the apples were too small. So out of 6,000 apples 600 of them would be too small because 1/10 of 6,000 is 600. If you add up all of the bad apples there are, there would be 4,100 bad apples because 2,000 + 1,500 + 600 = 4,100. However, the questioned didn’t ask you for the bad apples, it asked you how many good apples there. So, you would subtract all of the bad apples from the total amount of apples in general. 6,000 - 4,100 = 1,900. That is how I got 1,900 good apples.
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