Question

Orchard workers harvested 500 peaches. About 1 in 10 peaches are no good and have to be thrown away. How many good peaches are there in the batch of 500? If they distribute the remaining good peaches to 5 different businesses, how many peaches does each business receive?​

Answer 1

About 450 out of 500 peaches are good, and when those are distributed to 5 businesses, each business receives 90 peaches.

Step-by-step explanation:

The student's question involves calculating the number of good peaches in a batch and then determining how many peaches each of five businesses receives when the good peaches are distributed evenly.

First, we find the number of no good peaches by calculating 1/10 of 500, which is 50. To find the number of good peaches, we subtract the no good peaches from the total:

500 peaches - 50 no good peaches = 450 good peaches.

Next, to find out how many peaches each business receives, we divide the number of good peaches by the number of businesses:

450 good peaches ÷ 5 businesses = 90 peaches per business.