Question

A farmer sells 7.6 kilos of apples and pears at the market two-fifths of this weight is papples and the rest is pears how many kilos are pears did she sell at the Farmers Market

Answer 1

Answer: 4.56 kg

Explanation:

In total, 7.6 kg of both pears and apples were sold.

Now, out of that 7.6kg, two-fifths is apples and the rest are pears.

This means that Pears are:

= 1 - 2/5

= 3/5

The weight of pears is therefore:

= 3/5 * 7.6

= 4.56 kg