Question

A fruit bowl contains 10 pieces of fruit and 2/5 are apples. How many apples are in the fruit bowl?

Answer 1

4

Step-by-step explanation:

Here are two ways to think about it:

10 fruits -- clustered into 5 groups of 2 (each group represents one fifth) ...

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

[ _ _ ] [ _ _ ] [ _ _ ] [ _ _ ] [ _ _ ]

1 1 1 1 1

---- ---- ---- ------ -----

5 5 5 5 5

As you can see, two of those five fifths represent 4 apples.

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Or you can set up the problem like this and solve for x.

2 x

---- = ----

5 10

5x = 20

x = 4