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I ate twice as many apples as bananas and 3 times as many blueberries as bananas. If I

ate 12 fruits and berries altogether, how many apples did I eat? How many bananas?
How many blueberries?

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Answer:

4 apples 2 bananas and 6 blueberries

Explanation:

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Answer:

Below.

Explanation:

Let the number of bananas I ate be x.

Number of apples = 2x.

Number of blueberries = 3x.

So we have the equation:

x + 2x +3x = 12

6x = 12

x = 2.

So I ate 2 bananas, 4 apples and 6 blueberries.

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