Question

A fruit seller packed some apples into 15 small cartons and 20 big cartons. Each big carton contained 15 more apples than each small carton. 1/4 of the total number of apples were packed in small cartons. How many apples did the fruit seller pack altogether?

Answer 1

720 apples

Explanation:

Let A be the number of apples in the small pack.

QTY for Small Cartons is 15A,

QTY for Big Cartons is 20(A+15) = 20A+300

From small cartons makes 25% or 1/4 of total, means the big carton makes 75% of total, or 3/4 of total. This also means the qty in big carton is 3 times of small carton

20A+300 = 3X (15A)= 45A

300 = 25A

A=12

Altogether = 15A+(20A+300) = 720 Apples