Question

2 apples and 2 mangoes cost as 5 apples and 1 mango. Each mango cost $2.40 Find the cost of 1 apple.

How to do this question? Please help me.

Answer 1

Knowing that one mango costs $2.40, we can set it up as

2A+2(2.40)=5A+2.40

and solve for A.