Homework Help: math

Posted by Lucy on Wednesday, November 18, 2009 at 12:04am.

marc bought bananas, apples, and peaches. He bought twice as many lbs of bananas as apples, he bought 2 lbs more of apples than peaches and bought 3 lbs of peaches. How many total lbs of friuts did he buy?

math - drwls, Wednesday, November 18, 2009 at 12:55am
Yo0u don't even need algebra for this. Just read the statememnts.

There are 3 pounds of peaches and two more than than (5) of apples. Double that for the number of bananas. Then add them up.

This is more about reading comprehension than math.
math - miguel, Monday, November 21, 2011 at 1:22am
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