Question

a small fruit basket contains the fruit shown. A large basket has the same ratio of fruits as the small basket. If the large basket has 42 total pieces of fruit, how many are pears?

Answer 1

Answer:42

Explanation:

Answer 2

Since we have the following ratio for the fruits

6:5:3, for apples, oranges, and pears for a total of 14 fruits.

We will have that the number of fruits when total os 42, is the following:

So, the number of apples will be:

`A=(42\cdot6)/(14)\Rightarrow A=18`

The number of Oranges will be:

`O=(42\cdot5)/(14)\Rightarrow O=15`

And the number of pears will be:

`P=(42\cdot3)/(14)\Rightarrow P=9`

And we corroborate by adding the number of fruits and that gives solution 42.

So in the number of pears is of 9 units.