Question

The Math Club is baking pies for a bake sale. The fruit-pie recipe calls for twice as many peaches as nectarines. If it takes a total of 168 pieces of fruit for all of the pies, how many nectarines are needed?

Answer 1

56

Explanation:

where p represents peaches and n represents nectarine

p = 2n

p + n = 168

therefore, 2n + n = 168

3n = 168

n = 168/3

n = 56 nectarines