Question

In a basket of 24 mangoes 1/3 were yellow 5/8 were green and the rest were orange.
1. what fraction of the mangoes were green and ripe?
2. How mangoes green?
3. How many mangoes were orange?
4. What fraction of the mangoes were orange?

Answer 1

yellow mangoes = (1/3)(24) = 8
green mangoes = (5/8)(24) = 15
which leaves 1 mango as orange.

or 1/3 + 5/8 = 23/24
leaving 1/24 for the orange mangoes
and (1/24)(24) = 1

Answer 2

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