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Jai has 35 pieces of fruit. They are all apples and pears. He has 15 more apples than pears. How many pears does he have?
10 years ago

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Reiny
number of pears --- x
number of apples --- x+15

solve for x:

x + x+15 = 35
10 years ago
Anonymous
35-15=20
9 years ago

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