Question

Keira , larry and gita picked apples at an orchard. Keira picked twice as many pounds as larry and 3 times as many as gita. The total weight of the apples they picked was 8,360 pounds. How many pounds of apples did each person pick. Please explain how you solved it. Draw bar model to solve each problem

Answer 1

We are given : Keira picked twice as many pounds as Larry and 3 times as many as Gita.

Let us make a bar modal for the situation.

Let us take a bar for number of apples picked by Gita.

Keira picked 3 times as many as Gita.

So, we would make another bar that would have three times of Gita.

And Keira is also twice as many pounds as larry.

So, we made another bar that is 1 and a half of the Keira bar.

Then we section all the bars into two-two small portions.

Total number of small boxes are 11 boxes.

Total value of all boxes = 8,360 pounds.

Each box value = 760 pounds.

Keira picked ( 6 boxes) = 6 × 760 = 4560 pounds.

Gita picked ( 2 boxes) = 2 × 760 = 1520 pounds.

Larry picked ( 3 boxes) = 3 × 760 = 2280 pounds.