Sara discarded 1/10 of the apples she picked as defective. Of the apples remaining, 300 were made into cider. The rest were sold as fresh fruit. What fraction of the total apples picked were sold as fresh fruit?(1 point)
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3/10
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not enough information
not enough information
4/5
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3/5
To find the fraction of apples that were sold as fresh fruit, we need to determine how many apples were left after Sara discarded 1/10 of them and made 300 into cider.
Let's say Sara picked X apples in total.
Sara discarded 1/10 of the apples, so there were (1-1/10)X = 9/10X apples left.
Out of these remaining apples, 300 were made into cider. Thus, there were 9/10X - 300 apples left to be sold as fresh fruit.
The fraction of the total apples picked that were sold as fresh fruit is given by (9/10X - 300) / X.
Simplifying this fraction:
(9/10X - 300) / X = (9X - 3000) / (10X)
= (9 - 3000/X) / 10
There is no further information given about the value of X, so we cannot simplify this fraction any further.
Therefore, the answer is "not enough information"
To find the fraction of the total apples picked that were sold as fresh fruit, we need to know the fraction of the apples remaining after discarding the defective ones.
Let's start by finding the fraction of the apples remaining after discarding 1/10 of the total apples. To do this, we subtract 1/10 from 1 (since 1 represents the whole) to get:
1 - 1/10 = 9/10
So, 9/10 of the apples remained after discarding the defective ones.
Now, we know that 300 apples were made into cider, and the rest were sold as fresh fruit. The fraction of the remaining apples that were sold as fresh fruit can be found by subtracting the fraction made into cider from the fraction of apples remaining:
9/10 - 300/(total apples) = fraction sold as fresh fruit
Since we don't have the total number of apples picked, we don't have enough information to determine the exact fraction. Therefore, the correct answer is "not enough information."