Question

Sara discarded 1/10 of the apples she picked as defective. Of the apples remaining, 300 were made into cider. The rest were sold as fresh fruit. What fraction of the total apples picked were sold as fresh fruit?(1 point)
Responses

3/10
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not enough information
not enough information
4/5
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3/5

Answer 1

To find the fraction of apples that were sold as fresh fruit, we need to determine how many apples were left after Sara discarded 1/10 of them and made 300 into cider.

Let's say Sara picked X apples in total.

Sara discarded 1/10 of the apples, so there were (1-1/10)X = 9/10X apples left.

Out of these remaining apples, 300 were made into cider. Thus, there were 9/10X - 300 apples left to be sold as fresh fruit.

The fraction of the total apples picked that were sold as fresh fruit is given by (9/10X - 300) / X.

Simplifying this fraction:
(9/10X - 300) / X = (9X - 3000) / (10X)
= (9 - 3000/X) / 10

There is no further information given about the value of X, so we cannot simplify this fraction any further.

Therefore, the answer is "not enough information"