There is a bowl of fruit on the table. There are twice as many apples as pears and one more orange than apples. Eight pieces are either oranges or bananas. There are 3 bananas. How many pears are there in the bowl?
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Since they say there is three bananas, and 5+3= 8, there are 5 oranges. 5-1=4, so there are 4 apples. 4 times 2 = 8 so there are 8 pears. Answer: 8 pears
In your equation, you said A=2P. If there are 4 apples then, pear is half of the apples therefore 4/2 =2. The answer should be 2 pears?
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You can solve sequentially as follows:
O=orange,B=banana,A=apple,P=pear
"There are 3 bananas."
B=3
"Eight pieces are either oranges or bananas"
O+B=8
O=?
"one more orange than apples"
O-A=1
A=?
"twice as many apples as pears"
A=2P
P=?
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To find out how many pears are in the bowl, let's break down the information given step by step:
1. There are twice as many apples as pears: Let's assume the number of pears is "x." Therefore, the number of apples is 2 times x, which is equal to 2x.
2. There is one more orange than apples: So the number of oranges is 2x + 1.
3. Eight pieces are either oranges or bananas, and there are 3 bananas: This means there are 8 - 3 = 5 oranges.
Now, let's calculate the number of pears:
Since we know there are 5 oranges and the number of oranges is 2x + 1, we can set up the equation:
2x + 1 = 5
Subtracting 1 from both sides, we get:
2x = 4
Dividing both sides by 2, we find:
x = 2
Therefore, there are 2 pears in the bowl.