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anna has 4 apples, rickelle has 302 apples, anna gave all her apples to rickelle, rickelle gave four apples to each homeless person, how many homeless people were given apples

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Answer:

76 homeless people were given apples.

Explanation:

Anna has 4 apples, all of which she gave to Rickelle.

Rickelle had 302 apples, and after Anna gave the 4 to her, she had 302 + 4 = 306 apples.

Rickelle gave four apples to each homeless person, how many homeless people were given apples? ​

This can be solved using a rule of three.

One person got 4 apples. How many people were given 306 apples.

1 person - 4 apples

x people - 306 apples

Applying cross multiplication

4x = 306

x = 306/4

x = 76.5

We cannot give apples to half a person, so we take only the whole number.

76 homeless people were given apples.

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