After spoiling 2/9 of the fruit in a store, there are still 63 left. tons. How much fruit was there before it spoiled? 200
There are a couple of ways to approach this problem, but one possible method is to use a proportion based on the fraction of fruit that spoiled. Let x be the total amount of fruit before spoiling, and write:
2/9 x = x - 63
Here, 2/9 x represents the amount of fruit that spoiled, which is equal to the difference between the original amount x and the remaining 63. To solve for x, we can simplify the equation by multiplying both sides by the denominator of the fraction:
2x/9 = 9x/9 - 567/9
This gives:
7x/9 = 567/9
Now we can isolate x by multiplying both sides by 9/7:
x = 81 * 9 = 729
Therefore, there were 729 tons of fruit originally, before 2/9 of it spoiled, leaving 63 tons.