Tia owns a fruit shop and is selling a fresh lot of apples and oranges. She wants the ratio of apples to oranges sold to be 4 to

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Tia owns a fruit shop and is selling a fresh lot of apples and oranges. She wants the ratio of apples to oranges sold to be 4 to

2. Tia wants to sell a total of 54 apples and oranges. How many apples should she sell?

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gavmur [86] · Answer 1 · 2022-05-08T03:21:55+03:00

Answer:

Tia should sell 4(9), or 36, apples

Step-by-step explanation:

Find the value of the multiplier, p, that makes 4a + 2a = 54: a turns out to be 9. Then 4(9) + 2(9) = 54 is correct. Tia should sell 4(9), or 36, apples and half as many oranges, or 18. Note that 36 + 18 + 54.