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The Math Club is baking pies for a bake sale. The fruit-pie recipe calls for twice as many peaches as nectarines. If it takes a total of 168 pieces of fruit for all the pies, how many nectarines are needed?
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The Math Club is baking pies for a bake sale. The fruit-pie recipe calls for twice as many peaches as nectarines. If it takes a total of 168 pieces of fruit for all the pies, how many nectarines are needed?

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It takes a total of 56 nectarines
User Arkadiusz
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2x=peaches
x=nectarines

2x+x=168
3x=168
x=168/3
x=56

2(56) = 112

56 nectarines and 112 peaches
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