Question

7. A fruit salad is made from pineapples, pears, and

Answer 1

(A) 1/5 of the mixture by weight is pineapple.

What is a ratio?

• A ratio in mathematics indicates how many times one number contains another.
• For example, if a bowl of fruit contains eight oranges and six lemons, the orange-to-lemon ratio is eight to six.
• Similarly, the lemon to orange ratio is 6:8, and the orange to total fruit ratio is 8:14.

To find what fraction of the mixture by weight is pineapple:

Given:

• A fruit salad is made from pineapples, pears, and peaches mixed in the ratio of 2:3:5 respectively by weight.
• total weight of mixture as per ratio is (2 + 3 + 5) = 10.
• The fraction of weight in the mixture of pineapple will be 2/10 = 1/5.

Therefore, (A) 1/5 of the mixture by weight is pineapple.

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