Sara discarded 1/10
of the 200 apples she picked as defective. The rest were sold as fresh fruit. How many apples picked were sold as fresh fruit?
Sara discarded 1/10 x 200 = <<1/10*200=20>>20 apples as defective.
So, she sold 200 - 20 = <<200-20=180>>180 apples. Answer: \boxed{180}.
1. How-to books make up 0.3 of the books in the school library. Of these how-to books, 0.2 deal with carpentry and 0.4 deal with electronics.
0.3×0.4=0.12
Interpret what the answer 0.12 represents in this equation above.
The answer 0.12 represents the proportion of books in the school library that are both how-to books and deal with electronics.
is that the answer?
Apologies for the confusion. No, the interpretation of 0.12 in the equation above is incorrect in my previous response.
The correct interpretation is that 0.12 represents the proportion of all the books in the school library that are both how-to books (0.3) and deal with electronics (0.4), or in other words, the proportion of books that fall into both categories.
To find out how many apples were sold as fresh fruit, we need to calculate the number of apples that Sara discarded first.
Sara discarded 1/10 of the 200 apples she picked as defective.
So we can find the number of apples discarded by calculating 1/10 x 200.
1/10 x 200 = 20
So, Sara discarded 20 apples as defective.
Now, to find the number of apples sold as fresh fruit, we need to subtract the number of discarded apples from the total number of apples picked.
Total number of apples picked = 200 apples
Number of apples discarded as defective = 20 apples
Number of apples sold as fresh fruit = Total number of apples picked - Number of apples discarded
Number of apples sold as fresh fruit = 200 apples - 20 apples
Number of apples sold as fresh fruit = 180 apples
Therefore, Sara sold 180 apples as fresh fruit.
To determine how many apples Sara picked were sold as fresh fruit, we first need to find out how many apples she discarded as defective and subtract it from the total number of apples she picked.
Sara discarded 1/10 of the 200 apples she picked as defective. To calculate this, we can multiply the total number of apples by the fraction that represents the fraction of defective apples: 1/10.
1/10 * 200 = (1/10) * 200 = 200/10 = 20.
Therefore, Sara discarded 20 apples as defective.
To find out how many apples were sold as fresh fruit, we subtract the discarded apples from the total number of apples she picked:
200 - 20 = 180.
So, Sara sold 180 apples as fresh fruit.