Question

Kenneth shared a basket of apples with three of his friends. The basket weighed 14.75 pounds. What is the weight of the apples that each of the friends received?

Answer 1

Hey there!!

The total number of people are '4 people

The weight is shared equally among all the 4 people.

The total weight is 14.75 pounds.

What is the weight of each person?

∴We know everyone has the equal weight.

... person + person + person + person = 14.75

... 4 × person = 14.75

... person = 14.75 / 4

... person = 3.68

Hence, the weight of apples each get is 3.68 pounds.

Hope my answer helps!!

Answer 2

Assuming each person gets the same amount of apples, each friend gets 3.6875lbs of apples.

Explanation:

Now in order to find this, we need to note that 4 people get apples (Kenneth and 3 friends). So we take the total number of pounds and divide it by 4.

14.75lbs/ 4 people = 3.6875lbs per person