First tray apple is 1/5 bad, second tray apple is less 5 apples and 1/4 bad apple, write equation tray 1 in terms of x and solve x
What is x supposed to stand for? number of bad apples? Good apples? Total number of apples?
x is number of apples
To write the equation for the number of bad apples in the first tray in terms of x, we can use the given information.
Let's assume that there are "x" total apples in the first tray. Since 1/5 of them are bad, we can find the number of bad apples by multiplying x by 1/5:
Number of bad apples in the first tray = (1/5) * x
To solve for x, we need to set up an equation with the information from the second tray. It is stated that the second tray has 5 fewer apples than the first tray and 1/4 of them are bad. This means:
Number of apples in the second tray = x - 5
Number of bad apples in the second tray = (1/4) * (x - 5)
Now, we can set up the equation by equating the number of bad apples in the first tray and the second tray:
(1/5) * x = (1/4) * (x - 5)
To solve for x, we can cross multiply and simplify the equation:
4x = 5(x - 5)
4x = 5x - 25
Bringing the variables to one side, we get:
4x - 5x = -25
-x = -25
Finally, solving for x:
x = 25
Therefore, the number of total apples in the first tray (x) is 25.