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

Answer 1

Let's assume Sarah picked a total of x apples.

Sarah discarded 1/10 of the apples, so the number of apples remaining is x - 1/10 * x = 9/10 * x.

Out of these remaining apples, 300 were made into cider, so the number of apples sold as fresh fruit is 9/10 * x - 300.

Therefore, the fraction of the total apples picked that were sold as fresh fruit is:

(9/10 * x - 300) / x

Simplifying this fraction, we get:

(9x - 3000) / 10x