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After selling one third of his apple crop, a farmer sold the remainder at the same price per bushel for $600. What is the value of the crop?

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300. if you sold a third. then 2/3 would be left. you can then infer each is 300
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Answer:

$900.

Explanation:

Let x represent value of bushels of apples.

We have been that after selling one third of his apple crop, a farmer sold the remainder at the same price per bushel for $600.

Since farmer had sold 1/3 of apples, so amount of left apples would be 2/3.

We can represent this information in an equation as:


(2)/(3)x=600

Let us solve for x.


(3)/(2)*(2)/(3)x=(3)/(2)*600


x=3*300


x=900

Therefore, the value of the crop is $900.

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