Sarah 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.

Question

A: 3/10
B: 3/5
C: 4/5
D: not enough information

Answer 1

To start, let's assume that Sarah picked 100 apples (this is just an arbitrary number for calculation purposes).
If 1/10 of the apples were discarded as defective, then Sarah would have 100 - (1/10 * 100) = 100 - 10 = 90 apples remaining.
Out of the remaining 90 apples, 300 were made into cider, leaving 90 - 300 = -210 apples.
Since negative apples are not possible, this means that Sarah did not have enough apples to make cider. However, this does not impact our calculation for the fraction of apples sold as fresh fruit.
Out of the original 100 apples, 90 were sold as fresh fruit. Therefore, the fraction of apples sold as fresh fruit is 90/100 = 9/10.
Since the number of apples picked does not impact the fraction, we can conclude that the fraction of the total apples picked that were sold as fresh fruit is also 9/10.
Answer: D) not enough information