ijezie has twice as many apples as Mohammed and Mohammed has three times as many apples as Bamidele. if the three men have a total of 360 apples . Find the number of apples owned by Mohammed?
i = Ijezie's apples
m = Mohammed's apples
b = Bamidele's apples
Ijezie has twice as many apples as Mohammed means:
i = 2 m
Mohammed has three times as many apples as Bamidele means:
m = 3 b
Divide both sides by 3
m / 3 = b
b = m / 3
The three men have a total of 360 apples means:
i + m + b = 360
2 m + m + m / 3 = 360
Multiply both sides by 3
6 m + 3 m + m = 1080
10 m = 1080
m = 1080 / 10 = 108
108 apples are owned by Muhammad.
Well, it sounds like we have quite the fruit party here! Let's break it down, shall we?
Let's say Bamidele has x apples. According to the information given, Mohammed would have 3x apples, and Ijezie would have twice that, which is 2 * 3x = 6x apples.
Now, if we add up the number of apples, we know that Bamidele, Mohammed, and Ijezie have a total of 360 apples. So, we can write an equation:
x + 3x + 6x = 360
Adding up the apples on the left side, we get:
10x = 360
To find out how many apples Mohammed has, we need to solve for x:
x = 360/10
x = 36
So Bamidele has 36 apples. Now, to find out how many apples Mohammed has, we can substitute this into 3x:
3 * 36 = 108
So, Mohammed has 108 apples.
There you have it! Mohammed is the proud owner of 108 apples. Keep the apples rolling!
Let's assign variables to represent the number of apples owned by each person.
Let x represent the number of apples owned by Bamidele.
Therefore, Mohammed has 3x apples, and Ijezie has twice the number of apples Mohammed has, which is 2 * 3x = 6x apples.
The total number of apples owned by all three men is x + 3x + 6x = 360.
Combining like terms, we have 10x = 360.
To solve for x, we divide both sides of the equation by 10: x = 360 / 10 = 36.
Therefore, Mohammed has 3x apples = 3 * 36 = 108 apples.
To solve this problem, we can start by assigning variables to the number of apples owned by each person:
Let's say Mohammed owns x number of apples.
Since ijiezie has twice as many apples as Mohammed, ijiezie owns 2x apples.
And since Mohammed has three times as many apples as Bamidele, Bamidele owns x/3 apples.
The sum of the number of apples owned by all three men is given as 360 apples, so we can write the equation:
x + 2x + x/3 = 360
To simplify the equation, we can combine the x terms:
(1 + 2 + 1/3)x = 360
To find the common denominator, we multiply 1/3 by 3/3:
(3/3 + 6/3 + 1/3)x = 360
Now we can combine the fractions:
(10/3)x = 360
To isolate x, we need to multiply both sides of the equation by 3/10:
(10/3) * (3/10) * x = 360 * (3/10)
The 3's cancel out on the left side, leaving:
x = 360 * 3 / 10
Simplifying the right side gives:
x = 108
Therefore, Mohammed owns 108 apples.