Question

Here is a bowl of fruit

2. Half of the pieces of fruit in the bowi are apples. There an also 3 oranges, 2 pears, and a banana.

How many apples are there in the bowl? Show your work!

3. it instead, one quarter were apples and one quarter were oranges and there were also 4 bananas, 3 pears, and 3 plums, how many would be apples?

Answer 1

2. Since half of the pieces of fruit in the bowl are apples, we can multiply the total number of fruit by 1/2 to find the number of apples.

Total number of fruit = 2 (apples) + 3 (oranges) + 2 (pears) + 1 (banana) = 8

Number of apples = 8 x 1/2 = 4 apples

Therefore, there are 4 apples in the bowl.

3. If one quarter of the pieces of fruit in the bowl were apples and one quarter were oranges, we can calculate the number of apples in a similar manner as before.

Total number of fruit = 4 (apples) + 4 (oranges) + 4 (bananas) + 3 (pears) + 3 (plums) = 18

Number of apples = 18 x 1/4 = 4.5 apples

Since we cannot have a fraction of a fruit, the number of apples in this scenario would be 4 apples.