Answer:
He have <u>42</u> oranges and <u>7</u> mangoes.
The correct answer is <u>7 mangoes and 42 oranges</u>.
Step-by-step explanation:
Given:
Renaldo has six times as many oranges as mangoes. He has 49 pieces of fruit in all. Let r represent the number of oranges and m represent the number of mangoes.
Now to find the number of each fruit Renaldo have.
As, given:
Let represent the number of oranges and represent the number of mangoes.
So, as he has six times as many oranges as mangoes.
Thus,
..........( 1 )
Total number of fruits = 49.
According to question:
Substituting the value of from equation (1) we get:
<em>Dividing both sides by 7 we get:</em>
<em>Number of mangoes = 7.</em>
Now, to get the number of oranges we put the value of in equation (1):
<em>The number of oranges = 42.</em>
Therefore, he have 42 oranges and 7 mangoes.
The correct answer is 7 mangoes and 42 oranges.