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Tia owns a fruit shop and is selling a fresh lot of apples and oranges. She wants the ratio of apples to oranges sold to be 3 to 2. Tia wants to sell a total of 50 apples and oranges. How many apples should she sell?

User Fahim
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i have no idea how many apples should she sell

User Panini
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Answer:

She should sell 30 apples and 20 oranges

Explanation:

3+2=5 so everytime she does that she gets another 5 fruit sold just add a 0 to both and boom 50. I hope thats right, im pretty sure it is

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