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A fruit basket contains oranges and grape fruits. One-third of the oranges and one-fourth of the grapefruits were spoiled. You threw away 4 oranges and 7 grapefruits. How many peices of fruit were in the basket? ( write in algebraic form using the reciprocal property )

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so if 1/3 0f the oranges equals 4, than you times it by three to get 3/3, so there were 12 oranges and 28 grapefruits, so the answer is 40
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