Question

Garret bought 7 bags of apples. The red Apple came in bags of 5 and green came in bags of 2. Garret bought a total of 17 apples. How many of each type of apple did he buy.

Answer 1

1 bag of red and 6 bags of green apples.

Explanation:

We need to pick 7 bags of apples of different sizes so that the total number of apples = 17.

If Garret bought 1 bag of 5 then the other 12 apples would have to come in 6 bags.

That is 6 bags of 2 apples.

Answer 2

6 green apple bags and 1 red apple bags

Explanation:

6 green apple bags = 12 apples

1 red apple bag= 5 apples

12+5 =17 apples

6+1= 7 bags