Question

A grocery sells fruit boxes which include four oranges, three apples and one banana. One day they sell 48 oranges in their fruit boxes. How many apples did they sell?

Answer 1

To do this you would have to divide 48 by four to get the boxes sold, then mutiply it by three to get 36, 36 is the answer. Hope I helped.

Answer 2

If each box contains 4 oranges we must divide to find out how many boxes were sold.

48 oranges/ 4 oranges per box = 12 boxes.

Now that we know there are 12 boxes we see that there are 3 apples in each box and multiply.

12 boxes * 3 apples per box = 36 apples.

Hope this helps.