Story problem for 40 apples and 17 pears can be written as :
Suppose there is a farm having fruit trees of apples and pears. If there are 40 apples trees and 17 pears trees. If one apple tree has 100 apples and one pears tree has 50 pears. Find out how many apples are there and pears are there. Also find out how many fruits are there in total?